Feet and Exercise

[cjsmith]

As expected I walked way too much at the square dance convention. Our room was far from the elevators, so checking out on Monday evening (round trip to room, round trip to car, round trip to Advanced hall for Rob's room key) cost me my last tip with Kikuchi-san (foot budget exhausted). Oh well. I am flared up now, but only on the right foot and not seriously, which means I'm learning. Go me!

I also swam every single day. Now I know why people do it. The hotel pool was comfortable! Seriously - it wasn't excruciating to get into it. It wasn't even BAD to get into it. I was impressed. As for the actual exercise, that was humbling. My record: five laps. (Yes, you can laugh now. I know it's really just relief that you don't have to live in this body.) Fortunately, I feel like I'd get better quickly if I kept it up. And the lovely bonus of swimming was that my feet always felt terrific 'cause I wasn't standing on them.

MRI tomorrow morning and Friday morning, one foot each.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Why aren't they doing both feet on the same day?

And, yes, warm pools are a gift from $diety. You need to hook a solar panel up to the one you have at your house :-)

[kimatha.livejournal.com]

No, don't be humbled by 5 laps. That's great! Swimming is hard. You should be proud of yourself.

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

5 laps isn't bad. It's about where I started, and I used a kickboard. Someday when I win the lottery/marry a rich man/get money dumped on my lawn I want an indoor lap pool. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm swimming!

[annina-writes.livejournal.com]

Swimming is always such a treat for me. I'm glad that you managed the convention without a total meltdown of the footsies. Hopefully they'll know more about what they're treating after the MRI. Good luck!!

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Five laps whoops my ass. ;-) Of course, I can hardly do anything other than the dead man float. :-)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

And I almost forgot: Good luck on the MRIs if I don't catch anymore LJ updates for a couple more days!

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Oh, when I started swimming I think I could do about 4 laps (that's back & forth & back & forth, not round-trip laps) without having to stop and pant for breath. It gets better pretty fast.

Hope the MRI goes well!

[apparentparadox]

As others have pointed out 5 units (whether it is 5 trips along the pool or 5 trips "there & back") is pretty good starting out. When I tried swimming a couple of years ago, I couldn't even make 1 trip along the pool without stopping (and that's just 1 length, not 1 "there & back").

I decided, though, that swimming just isn't for me -- and luckily I have other options. I recently started riding my bicycle again, and after the first several humbling times of not being able to get very far, I'm getting my leg strength & aerobic ability back, so I'm enjoying it.

I'm really glad that you're learning how to pace yourself. Once you understand that, then you can actually learn to stop before you'll be in too much pain to walk the next day!!!

[firecat]

I'm glad you found a pool that was comfortable to swim in, and that your MRIs are both being done this week!