Walking
February 28th 2009 02:09
One of the things I've most missed while being fitted with a catheter is being able to walk freely, and at a decent pace. Walking, while thus hampered, has been like trundling along at a really old man's pace, and never comfortable.
Walking comes highly recommended as part of the healing process after the prostate operation, so I'm keen to make sure I get going again. Until today, I've only walked up to the local shop and
back to get a newspaper: no great task. And last night, my wife and I went for a fairly brief walk (by my standards) along the Esplanade at St Clair Beach. Though brief, it was satisfying, and I could feel long unused (long in the sense of nearly three months) muscles responding to being needed again.
Today, however, we did a four kilometre walk! The WOW factor was huge for me - though maybe not so much for my wife who's been walking to work regularly for months, and who yesterday got up to something like 15,000 steps on her pedometer.
We'd heard during the week that a walking/bicycle track had been extended from Ravensbourne to Maia. At that point we didn't even know there was a track at all, so this was good news. The track runs mostly parallel with the railway line going to Port Chalmers, and is between the Harbour and the residential areas along the road.
Our plan, in light of my recent lack of exercise, was to do a short burst along the track and return. We didn't quite make it to Maia in the end, but we did a fair chunk of the track all the same.
Muscles that haven't been in action for weeks are now complaining, and by the time we got home (after a bit of shopping) I needed nothing but lunch and a snooze. But man, it was satisfying! - almost the equivalent of going on European cruises after years of camping in a tent at a local picnic spot.
You can see more of Setev's photos here.
Walking comes highly recommended as part of the healing process after the prostate operation, so I'm keen to make sure I get going again. Until today, I've only walked up to the local shop and
St Clair Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand - shot taken by Setev on flickr.com
Today, however, we did a four kilometre walk! The WOW factor was huge for me - though maybe not so much for my wife who's been walking to work regularly for months, and who yesterday got up to something like 15,000 steps on her pedometer.
We'd heard during the week that a walking/bicycle track had been extended from Ravensbourne to Maia. At that point we didn't even know there was a track at all, so this was good news. The track runs mostly parallel with the railway line going to Port Chalmers, and is between the Harbour and the residential areas along the road.
Our plan, in light of my recent lack of exercise, was to do a short burst along the track and return. We didn't quite make it to Maia in the end, but we did a fair chunk of the track all the same.
Muscles that haven't been in action for weeks are now complaining, and by the time we got home (after a bit of shopping) I needed nothing but lunch and a snooze. But man, it was satisfying! - almost the equivalent of going on European cruises after years of camping in a tent at a local picnic spot.
You can see more of Setev's photos here.
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