Greetings from Virginia

[ironmanjt]

44 year old guy here, living just outside Washington DC in Virginia. It all started about 15 years ago when I convinced myself that "doing an Ironman triathlon is a good enough 'meaning' to commemorate forever" and the first tiny tattoo was born.

That progressed a few years ago to a polynesian half sleeve to commemorate where I was born, and that's moved on to a full colour sleeve and a decent sized calf piece (which I did 10 days ago and am having a ridiculously hard time healing - actually found this site searching for hints on healing calves and found lots of great advice).

I do tons of international travel as well as play hockey for fun. Looking forward to hearing from others.

[21stNow]

Greetings from Maryland and welcome to LST!

[ToxicBarrels]

That is a sick sleeve mate, love the octopus!!

[The Tig]

Hello and welcome.

Nice first post full of photos!

[ironmanjt]

Thanks for all the welcomes - 28 hours later on the sleeve very glad to finally have it done. Just wish it would hurry up and finally be healed!

Now, that frustrating calf...

[SStu]

welcome, and credit your artist(s)!

[ironmanjt]

welcome, and credit your artist(s)!

Both the hockey skull and the octopus sleeve were done by the lovely and talented Hannah Aitchison! :D

[marley mission]

octopus tattoos!!

[Pete tattoo freak]

nice! welcome!

[SStu]

Both the hockey skull and the octopus sleeve were done by the lovely and talented Hannah Aitchison! :D

Is she still up in Chicago?

[ironmanjt]

Is she still up in Chicago?

Nope, she moved to Pittsburgh about 18 months ago I believe. We've been working on the sleeve since January, and I know she'd already been there for 6+ months at that point.