Humble Pie

I have run half marathons, a full marathon, thousands of miles during training. I used to swim miles and miles. I do yoga. I used to bike miles and miles. I've climbed at climbing gyms and outdoors. All of those things are easy to do and learn by comparison. I had never played 18 holes of golf until yesterday and it was humbling. I admit, I sprained my ankle and have been walking and doing yoga lately, so I am a bit out of shape, but I ache in places I didn't know I had muscles. Not horribly bad, but man, 18 holes was a lot more tiring than I ever thought. Technically I didn't even play all 18, I probably played through 12 to 14 of them. So here's to the Tiger Woods and Anika Sorensens out there, your sport requires stamina and strength that I had not imagined. I even thought I might be able to walk the course, because I run distances - right??? We took a cart and I was sure glad we did. Mind you, I take my hat off for the ability needed to play this totally frustrating game. A good golfer has talent. I never really considered that it was that physically challenging however, so I will now have my humble pie. A la mode if you please.