# Well THAT kicked my ass! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634 "2009-07-20T15:50:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/1 "2009-07-20T15:50:10Z")
Here it is, Monday morning, and I am still recovering from beating myself up on Saturday playing paintball with my 20-year old son. Just another reminder that my 48-year old carcass takes longer and longer to bounce back from activities I used to do with little or no consequences. I guess it has been a while since I’ve been running through the woods, and and crawling over mud and rocks on my hands and knees. Thank goodness we decided to head home after 4 hours instead of buying more paint. If we had stayed, I’m not sure I would be walking today! Hard to believe I used to be in as good a shape as the kid is today! So what have you done recently that took the greatest toll on your body, either for recreation or otherwise? ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/2 "2009-07-20T16:00:11Z")
Climbed the hiking trail to the rim of Mt. Vesuvius (30 degree grade, one-half mile). Thought I was going to die. And I power walk on my treadmill five days a week. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/3 "2009-07-20T16:05:54Z")
Physical therapy. It’s way, WAY harder than marathon training. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/4 "2009-07-20T16:07:25Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Physical therapy. It’s way, WAY harder than marathon training. What you rehabbing? I’ve been fortunate. The last 2 times I had surgery on my wheels the docs and therapists were amazed at how quickly I bounced back. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/5 "2009-07-20T16:19:16Z")
I was recently at the Desert Sand Dunes in Colorado. I was so enthralled by the view I said, Heck, lets go to the top! Yeah, 2 hours later I was still sucking sand climbing the last dune to the top. Safety tip, The “top” of the dunes is not like a mountain, it’s more like a small knoll in hell, just up from the river stix. Gah! ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/6 "2009-07-20T16:28:54Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > What you rehabbing? I’ve been fortunate. The last 2 times I had surgery on my wheels the docs and therapists were amazed at how quickly I bounced back. Stress fracture. You know, from running. 🙂 Every session, I start with 20 minutes of running, and then the hard stuff starts. Good lord. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/7 "2009-07-20T16:41:18Z")
Just for a reference, here is a [pic](http://bp0.blogger.com/_MO5Sqy1DyCw/Rwwbk7hD0TI/AAAAAAAAACk/6F-eH76AqjI/s1600-h/Great+Sand+Dunes+National+Park+10-6-07+016.jpg)of the dunes. The Ant sized thing at the top of the photo is a person. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/8 "2009-07-20T17:22:55Z")
Just think, some day your son will have his butt kicked by _his_ son. You’ll just sit in your rocking chair and laugh. StG ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/9 "2009-07-20T17:45:21Z")
Couple of years ago I did paintball with friends, including a friend’s boss, and including said boss’s two fifteen-year-old sons. I was in my early forties. Hours of crouching down in the woods, thighs flexed, at high psychological tension. The next day my thighs were in inconsolable agony. It was 2-3 days before I could walk comfortably. Oh-My-God I was in distress. But the pain was _somewhat_ alleviated by the fact that I got 12 people cold before any paint touched me – and that paintball that did hit me didn’t break. The 12 kills included, among others, one guy who was crouched in a hide, shooting through a slot a few inches wide, while we rushed across broken ground – I fired one shot from the hip, it went right into the slot and hit him in the facemask. 🙂 The pain was _totally_ alleviated by the fact that, on the long ride back home, the fifteen-year-old boys allowed as how I was “all right for an old guy.” ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/10 "2009-07-20T17:49:38Z")
Ran 25 minutes straight. Which will quickly be overtaken in the contest of Thing That Most Kicked MsWhatsit’s Ass by the 28-minute run I am doing on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/11 "2009-07-20T18:10:19Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > The pain was _totally_ alleviated by the fact that, on the long ride back home, the fifteen-year-old boys allowed as how I was “all right for an old guy.” I got into it when my son was 14-15. Learned they would tolerate my presence if I was their designated driver and occasionally flexed my plastic. 😛 I tend to get impatient and get tagged too quickly. But my shot-of-the-day was one I’ll long remember. We were on a field full of wrecked cars. My son was to my left, guarding the sideline. I had a nice spot closer to the center of the field, but was running low on ammo. 3-4 guys were pushing hard towards my son. I was calling out their advance from car to car, but he had no angle on them. I was down to my last paintball, when one guy broke out of cover and started running towards my son’s position. As my son told it, he just caught a glimpse of the guy coming around his car as he saw my paintball burst on the guy’s mask. Doesn’t get much better than that! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/12 "2009-07-20T18:51:11Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > So what have you done recently that took the greatest toll on your body, either for recreation or otherwise? Any kind of interval training. Either high-intensity or the regular stuff. In addition to my normal runs, I do a 12-15 mile long run every week and one 3 mile session worth of invervals (plus a mile warm-up and a mile cool-down), and I would rather do the long run anytime. It’s hell and I’m practically dry heaving by the end of it. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/13 "2009-07-20T18:54:19Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > So what have you done recently that took the greatest toll on your body, either for recreation or otherwise? Grew old. Physically, at least; my eternally 21 year old brain still persists in making promises my 60 year old body can’t keep. We started a new physical fitness training session in our Taekwondo school. Egads, how I hurt after the first session! ---
**Author:** ![abbeytxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@abbeytxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abbeytxs)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/14 "2009-07-20T18:58:24Z")
I started playing soccer in a women’s over 40 league. I have never played soccer before. My kids play and I love watching professional soccer so when a couple of my tennis buddies suggested I join their team, I said sure. Now I play tennis 4 - 5 times a week, both singles and doubles so I was certain I could handle it. WRONG. It took me three days to be able to walk up a flight of steps without wincing in pain. Fortunately, I had such a blast playing I kept going back, but come each Monday morning, Waaaaaaaaahhhhh! ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/15 "2009-07-20T19:07:18Z")
I’m 44 now. Back in my 20s and early-to-mid 30s I was a semi-serious gym rat; 4-5 workouts per week, 45-60 minutes each workout. Got married (again) late in life and had a kid. At this point in my life I haven’t, or _hadn’t_, been to the gym in about 7 years. Last week the missus got us a family membership at the YMCA. Last Wednesday, I swaggered into the gym assuming my tired, old, slightly flabby body could still work out as hard as before. I worked out with a will for about an hour, even managed to bench pres my body weight (about 188 lbs)…_twice_. Since last Wednesday _every single muscle in my body has hurt_. The first few days were bright, white-hot, fiery needles of pain lancing through me, now it’s just a constant dull ache. Christ, I’m OLD. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/16 "2009-07-20T21:41:59Z")
I just don’t understand why everyone keeps insisting on spelling it with a ‘t’. It’s _painball_, plain and simple. More than once have I come home with holes in my t-shirt from hot guns. And yet I kept going back. I swear I was always wearing my mask and hat and have never taken a shot directly to the head. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/17 "2009-07-21T00:46:33Z")
Many years ago I had a Total Gym, it’s one of those exercise machines that Chuck Norris pushes. I used it every once in a while till the grown kids broke it messing around on it. I bought another this weekend and last night put in about an hour on it. I could barely lift my arms this morning. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/18 "2009-07-21T01:42:59Z")
Earlier this year I was in an exercise class and went home and decided to practice over the weekend. The one that killed me was, from a kneeling condition, slowly arch back as far as you can until you feel the stretch in your thighs. Oh, I felt it, all right! I sprained my thigh muscles :eek: - was in utter agony for two days and had to go down the stairs sitting on my butt and bumping myself down, stair by stair. A charming sight, and a humorous one judging by the pointing and laughing I endured from the family. ---
**Author:** ![Alpine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpine/32/17813_2.png) [@Alpine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpine)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/19 "2009-07-21T02:24:13Z")
A week ago, I climbed a 12,804’ mountain, with a vertical gain of 4000’ in about 3 miles. I was definitely gimping before we even got to the top. I will draw a veil over the trip down. Especially the approaching storm that required a “brisk” pace. However, I was only insanely sore (silly walks, waddling down stairs) for 2 days, so all my regular hiking must be good for something. So who’s turning 40 on Saturday, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Kricket](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f14d63/32.png) [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634/20 "2009-07-21T05:57:26Z")
I’ll be 38 in December and I broke my foot attending one of the Flatfoot 56 concerts at the Cornerstone festival this year. My daughter\* bought a hoodie that read “I lost my mom in the mosh pit”. \*18yo girl that was part of the youth group I work with and is very much like a daughter to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-that-kicked-my-ass/503634.md?page=2)