Last night I threw my first stones since March 14, 2020 and boy is my body in pain even though the folks at #OCCurling were nice enough to let me skip during the orientation game and the pick up game that followed since I’m still in physical therapy for my shoulder issues over a year later... My physical therapist says I either have adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) or shoulder impingement, or both. Knowing my luck and the fact that I’ve been dealing w/ chronic pain and limited range of motion/mobility for over a year, it’s probably both. But not sweeping much last night did help, though I still feel a little upper body soreness, especially the left shoulder/arm in the usual spots, ones marked by dark purple cupping marks. . . It felt like starting all over again physically, but luckily the strategy part of the game is way better now than it was when I threw my first rock at a Curl SD #LearnToCurl I attended alone the day before my birthday. Having watched the hundreds, maybe thousands of hours of curling I’ve watched since the 2018 Olympics and actually having curled myself, I certainly saw some improvements. Despite not being able to draw to save my life both on the ice and on paper, I was lucky enough to pull off an in-turn draw for 2 to get on the board. We ended up tied at the end and had we had more time, we may have been able to win it - momentum was certainly on our side once we got on the board in the first match. In both games, the idea that if a skip’s doing the right things he or she will just be guarding proved to be true. It makes me excited to return to curling w/ @curlsandiego hopefully w/ my old team. . . 🥌💙💛🇸🇪🥌💙💛🇸🇪🥌💙💛🇸🇪 #fangirlcurling #growththegame #growthesport #wintersports #sports #curling #sweep #curlsandiego #curlingrocks #irvine #greatparkice #ibuprofenforbreakfast #hurryhard #ilovecurling #itsalotharderthanitlooks #voltarengelismyBFF #everythinghurts #HardlineNation 🥌💙💛🇸🇪🥌💙💛🇸🇪🥌💙💛🇸🇪 (at Great Park Ice & FivePoint Arena) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQFcT93D8Zx/?utm_medium=tumblr
