The big apple

I arrived in NYC on Monday and it's only taken me a few short days to get nice and sore. Someone said to me once that pain is weakness leaving the body and if that is the case I am one strong chick.

It's amazing how much you can accomplish in NYC in a very short amount of time. The past few days have been filled with physical therapy appointments, fencing, yoga, and a visit with some of my close friends.

The yoga is the part that took me by surprise. Yoga for me is a very meditative and introspective practice while going slowly into poses. The interesting thing is that yoga has become nycfied and instead of being relaxing, the yoga studio I went to was almost masochistic. The instructor started the class with some chants, which isn't abnormal, but she was yelling the chants. I couldn't even hear myself think while she was shouting OMmmmmm at the top of her lungs. Then when I tried to modify certain poses because I can't really get into them very easily, she would force me into a pose of yell something like-FEET TOGETHER! or TOUCH THE PALM TO THE GROUND! I wanted to say-hey lady, if I could touch my entire palm on the ground with my legs in this position, I wouldn't be in this class.

Needless to say, I needed some time after the yoga class to decompress. I feel like people in the city could use more classes that are restful since they live such hectic lives but logic and reason does not always prevail.

Fencing here has been great and I'm looking forward to tonight because we are doing some video analyzation of the Italian team. I have been impressed by the effectiveness of their footwork patterns and strategies. I am sure talking about video tape is really exciting for the blog readers.

Anyways, it's time to get going on this day. Hope everyone is having a great week!