It's entirely possible that some of my problems with leg cramps are due to not stretching properly. Discovered that I have a tendency not to fully relax the muscle I'm trying to stretch. That's wrong. Might account for at least some of the cramping. Probably not all of it.
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The weather was cool and cloudy at lunchtime -- perfect for walking. The usual route to the pond via the back hill. I thought I was at my usual pace, but may well have been going a little faster because my heart-rate stayed up even on the downhill segments. In any case it came to an abrupt slowdown when I got some rather painful leg cramps. Promptly stretching the calf muscle in question (the right leg) seems to have kept it from staying knotted up, but it sure hurt. Several times. It seemed to want to tighten up when I got back to work and stopped walking, so I did a little more slow, careful walking indoors until it seemed to stabilize. I was still getting twinges a couple of hours later. Flexoril tonight.
Stats: time: time: 49:44; avg: 128; max: 154.
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Down to the Rose Garden today. It's dead flat, so I didn't get my heart rate up very high; but I got a bit of a workout. I'm not sure whether the stretching helped or not; I might have overdone it a little. And it still seems to take me a long time to find the right pace. Grump.
The Royal Amethyst was almost spent, but I found a couple of nice full blossoms to take pictures of.
Stats: time: 51:45; avg: 112; max: 121.
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For some people this may be NaNoWriMo; I'm not going to have time for that. I want to have scratch tracks for Amethyst Rose, and hopefully also for Hackers' Heaven done by the end of the year.
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Down to the pond via the hill; 1.5 times around. A little slower this time, mainly by shortening my stride. Stretching before and after. Wore the running shoes with an ankle brace on the left; this seems to have worked. One knee twinge, on the right, and some random muscle tightness mainly on the left calf and, for the first time, the right thigh. I think I'm basically hitting different sets of limits each time. Hopefully that indicates progress.
Stats: time: 47:17; avg: 120; max 146.
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Same route as yesterday, but with the hiking boots instead of the running shoes, and faster. No ankle pain, no shin pain thanks to a little stretching before yesterday's walk, flexeril last night when it seemed to want to knot up, and a little stretching after today's walk. Still haven't done more than glance at the book, but even that has been helpful.
Stats: time: 43:46; avg: 129; max: 156. 20% faster than yesterday! That makes it pretty close to 4mph.
