MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Back to the Beginning

Well, I've been getting back to walking as a form of exercise for the last two months. I used to walk a lot, even as a teen, I would go on long walks and think and try to get my blood pumping. Back in my thinner, fitter days, I could easily walk five miles, no problem. When DH and I had our honeymoon splurge in Paris, we walked everywhere, whole days of walking, so much so that we had to go into a drugstore and by medical tape to cover our blisters so we could keep on walking.

So what happened? I guess what's happened is 16 years, pregnancies involving bedrest and wait gains, untreated depressions and overeating, blah blah blah. I am now in that morbidly obese category (don't it sound lovely?) and very out of shape. I've exercised on and off through the years, but in fits and spurts. So here I am trying to walk again, and what was once easy has become a challenge.

I am easily one of the slowest walkers on the indoor track at the Y, yet I'm working hard (for me, at this stage). I've got myself walking a mile right now, 6 laps around the track, and in tis back-to-being-a-baby phase I'm in, I feel damn proud of that. When I walk now, the muscles surrounding my lower back ache incredibly-- sometimes I hurt all through the whole mile, and other times I just hurt some. I keep telling myself that if I just keep on going, walking several days a week, I will strengthen those muscles enough so that they won't hurt. Walking will just be walking again, not so much of a challenge.

Being where I'm at right now is helping me to appreciate the smaller things in life. Walking at all is such a miracle. And being fit again is a goal I want to keep walking toward.