Kepfram & Ellie's Travel Journal

Another beautiful day in Costa Rica's cental valley. The sun is gently filtering through the curtains of our apartment, in the distance I can hear the drumming of the marching band from the school up the hill, it's 77° outside (probably a little less indoors).
My ass hurts.
It's not alone mind you, I have acompanying pains in my legs, abs, & shoulders, but apparently I don't use those muscles as often in my daily routine so I'm less aware of them & their pains (which of course, would be why they all have pain now).
So I found a capoeira school. It's nearby in Zapote, maybe a mile from our apartment. I've been jogging over there everyday, it's less than 15 minutes from here. Anyway, the class is hard. I'm not sure if I'm getting older or I'm more out of shape than I thought I was, but I can't even finish the warm-up for these classes. I stretch & do the little bit of running @ the begining of class with everyone else, but when they start doing things that remind me of the acrobatics training I used to do in kung-fu school I end up falling in pain or exhaustion less than 1/2 way through each exercise. Example: walking 10 meters in a back bend (forward & backward), walking or hopping on your hands while someone holds your feet for 10 meters (like a wheel barrow race), walking on your hands for 10 meters, cartwheels from a squatting position for 10 meters, etc. The most torturous part of the classes is doing about 200 crunches near the end of each hour & a half session. Although for all my complaining I'm loving it, it's a great workout & there are some practical martial arts moves to be learned too (I'm thinking that a lot of the ground fighting techniques could be quite usefull).