roguedemon

21 miles on Saturday. I could have done more, but honestly, my left hamstring was hurting so much that I was having to lie down for 10 minutes at a time to try to reset it almost every mile. It was abominable.

As I was telling my partner, I've got the fitness for 30-mile walks now, easy; it's the injuries! Even with the injuries, I *can* walk 30 miles, but it's unpleasant being in that much pain for that long.

Annoyed at the hamstring. I was hoping it had healed! Or at least more than this. It certainly hurts less or not at all when walking around the block, and I've even started being able to go to the store and back again up my normal hill, instead of detouring along the longer but flatter route. But after 7 miles on Saturday, boom!, hamstring protest.

My knee allowed me to walk all 21 miles without more than one flare up, after which I put on my brace and it was fine. I thought therefore that my knee would be fine henceforth! But my knee has continued to do the alternating stable/flare-up/stable/flare-up thing this week. I actually ended up quasi-stranded when running an errand a week ago, wherein it took me 90 minutes to get home from 2 km away. I was creeping along very slowly, stopping frequently, sitting down almost every block...it was very igneous.

I'm pretty sure it's all down to posture when using the computer. Unfortunately, I haven't quite solved that yet.

Foot is mostly healed, definitely not a problem. I was able to buy new outdoor sandals, so despite the occasional twinge, I'm considering that solved until further notice. However, I'm still avoiding walking barefoot on the sensitive spot, even for a step or two, and I've definitely learned never to massage the ball of my foot!

There are 2 more places on my bucket list before I move away, both involving ~30 mile walks, and I've got a handful of weekends left. We'll see how it goes.

(Concord and Salem.)