My current delight is walking. Everyday I go out and walk somewhere, anywhere. Initially I begun after reading about the Santiago de camino Compostela and thought it sounds like me. I'd like to do that next year when I've sold up and settled up my life and time to this point, well in that point actually because it'll be 2014. Nothing like planning ahead, especially when it entails walking 500 miles across Spain. So, I've been reading and wondering and ascertaining my actual physical ability to do so and when I first went out for a walk it lasted for 26 mins and I was an aching wreck.
I've been a runner for most of my life especially in my mid years 35 to 55 but now at 69 the longest run (which is now a jog, not even that actually but a shuffle) has been for about 24 mins but that caused irritation and soreness in my left hip and knee so it didn't last and I became quite unfit preferring to sit here, chat on FB and play WOW. Yes, believe it or not I've played WOW since I was 65 and it certainly kept my mind alert. It filled a need somehow but more of that later perhaps.
For now, it's walking. Over the past 4 weeks I've built up my stamina and muscle and the other day walked around the bays and beaches and hills and cliffs above Sumner and by the time I got back to my car 2hrs 16 mins had gone by. What a pleasure and what a great feeling of being out there and active and no aches at night any more. My knees and hip have improved out of sight and I think I've stumbled (actually, walked) into an elexia of youth :)
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