House of Payne? House of Pain!

Just got back from my first attempt at serious weightlifting since busting my ankle. The ankle itself did fine...the rest of me, well, not so much. The combination of reduced cardio-muscular fitness (from a couple of weeks off) and a pretty nasty headcold (from, um, a virus I guess) left me out-of-breath, lightheaded, and even dry-heaving at times. Still, I made it through.

And now I feel like a powerlifter for the first time in quite a long time---and not in the sense of being superhumanly strong, but rather in the sense of urgently needing an icebath and smelling salts, not necessarily in that order.