The first time I did Ironman I had a massage once a week. It was part of my training program. It was not one of these namby pamby relaxation massages, it was a deep tissue massage and usually hurt like the dickens. Well, since I've moved I haven't had a regular massage for oh... 2 years. Now I have all these nasty little aches and pains from doing a lot of mileage running, not to mention jumping into a 40 mile ride on the weekend when the only other ride I've done since Jan that was longer than 30 min was an easy 25 miler with some friends about 4 weeks ago.

So I booked a massage. She came to my office and did it there (I work in PT so it wasn't really all that weird). It was 1.5 hours of torture. She dug and dug and dug some more. I was in agony and then she says "I really feel like we're only skimming the surface here."

Either I've forgotten what it's like to get a real deep tissue massage or I've turned into a pansy. But OMG!!

Thanks for listening, I'm limping off to the tub now to try to process all the aches and pains that have cropped up since my therapeutic massage.