Rambling about a short ramble

Once upon a time I could walk ten miles without much trouble. Unfortunately that time was almost twenty years ago. It's hard to believe it's been quite so long but sadly it has. A large part of this is that I've gotten more sedentary as the years have gone by. Especially now that I'm living in an area where I can't just walk to a bus stop and hop on a bus to run whatever errands come up. As it is now I get out maybe once a week for errands and that's largely just trips to the grocery store. The past year I've gotten even lazier about taking my walk. I could cite a plethora of excuses I suppose, everything from depression about my mother's illness and death to my own medical issues, aches, and pains, but mostly I've been lazy.

I took the first real walk I've taken in several months today. I walked to my brother's house to make sure all was well there and to bring in his mail. His mailbox was quite full today. He only gets home on weekends these days. When I finished there I decided to walk out to the Highway to see if I could. My legs started to ache by time I got to Park & Ride lot so I turned around and made my way back home. All told it was about 1.8 miles round trip including the visit to my brother's house. My legs are still a little achy even now. I'm going to have to work myself back up to five miles. It's surprising how quickly the body seems to go to waste if you don't keep your activity levels up. It was only six months ago that I could have walked two miles and further without any difficulty.

Tomorrow I'm going to get up early again and try to get in a mile's walk before it gets too hot.