Long Walk

Yesterday was Friday and it was gray but temperatures pushing up above freezing. It's been some time since we had the chance for a long walk, so it was around the neighborhood. I wasn't feeling particularly sore but took it slow, picking around the ice, although most of the pavements were dry. Except at the corners of course.

South on Beld to the bike path, then east behind Frankly Field under the Olin Ave bridge, under John Nolen Drive, all the way to the parking lot at Olin Park where there's a barrel to drop my coffee cup. Near the lake there's a footbridge across the creek, so we crossed there to the end of Lakeside. Then back to the bikepath under John Nolen (on the other side of the creek) and around Traffic Engineering. Colby St north to the O'Sheridan loop next to the bay, then west on Lakeside and South Shore. Following the bay we went north on West Shore to Emerald, where there's a new stoplight so you can cross Park St near St Marys. So west on Emerald, up the hill past the hospital and around on Mills, south to the entrance of the Arboretum and Wingra Drive. Then southeast on the bikepath along the creek (stopped for a photo of spray painting on snow at Wingra and Fish Hatchery) to Beld, and north to home.

I walked for 123 minutes, just over two hours. Usually I do only about half of this loop. I was tired but not in pain. More fatigued lately, even with nine or ten hours of sleep. This is what I mean by the pain and fatigue being junk information, not functional signals, because clearly my body is capable of quite a lot even when it doesn't feel like it.

Then I had fifteen minutes of lie down and yoga. Arms raised, ham stretch, knee-down twist, Child's Pose.