content note: exercise

[alexseanchai]

Sitting here wondering why my legs hurt. Just now recalled, I walked a mile today.

One. Freaking. Mile.

I want to be able to breeze through a 5K (which is three point one miles) and not feel it afterwards. But apparently I don't want to put in the actual work it takes to get there from here. Because every time I try, it hurts after.

(See also my not-great flexibility, my not-great strength esp in the upper body, and the thing where exercise is supposed to improve matters for depressed folks.)

Comments

[aldersprig]

In my experience, the mile hurts at first. Then it hurts less. Then it doesn't hurt. Of course, then I stop walking and I have to start all over again. Again. Again.

I have bad knees, arthritis, I'm over my ideal weight by ~40lbs, and I have depression, so I know the feels of "I should walk but ow."

Am feeling them right now, actually: just walked 2 miles with 6'4" husband of Walks Faster Than The Wind.

[alexseanchai]

Again and again and AGAIN.

[aldersprig]

Ex-actly. Last year, I could walk four miles with my attic-renter with mild pain. Today, two miles leaves me hurting everywhere.
Almost everywhere.