Sore legs

Ouch, the pain! Maybe it was because of the sprint last Friday, or my legs-training at the gym on Monday, or my attempts to swim breaststroke yesterday... Whatever the reason, my legs felt incredibly sore today. So it was with much dread that I turned up for wushu class, dragging my two feet along, hamstring and calf muscles all tense and uncomfortably taut. During the stretching portion of the lesson, I could barely straighten out my legs, let alone enjoy the warm-up running exercises. :( Ah well...

However, thankfully, this week, the focus of the class was not on spinning kicks and cartwheels, but an introduction to basic swordplay - which meant most of the physical exertion was borne by the upper-body, mainly the arms and shoulders. :) Wen Yeow said that he will be teaching us the "san1 duan4 dao1", an extremely rudimentary tao4 lu4 but one which is still useful to learn nonetheless.