Today is Thursday. It's the last working day of my vacation. The next three days I would have had off anyway. It's a bit sad in a way. I've kind of enjoyed this time off even if I didn't really do anything monumental. I barely even left the house. It was still nice to read a book and get some stuff done. It was also nice getting on the treadmill for some 2 mile walks.
Yesterday was chiropractor day. I was excited to get onto the treadmill to see if my feet would go numb. He said he did something different with my back yesterday so I was hoping that it would help with the numb feet situation. I decided to take this walk fairly slow to start since there was elevation and I just wasn't in the mood for speed or huffing and puffing. I started 2MPH. I stayed there for the first hill section and then went up to 2.2. I stayed at 2.2 until it went to the downhill section and then went up to 2.4. I dropped down during the last hill. The slowest I went was 1.8 or 1.9. I forget which. I really hate big hills at the end. Oddly enough though, it really took my mind off of the time. I was so focused on watching the chart of the elevation so I knew when I'd be going down again! I started swearing at the machine on the last blip of 18%. I was telling it to start going down, but it wouldn't. I started to swear at it and it still wouldn't go down. Eventually I gave up and it went down. I didn't realize that it had another blip up though just at the end so as I was coming off the big hill, I went down to 10% or something close I think and then after a few seconds, it popped back up to 12% or something close to that. I was so not happy. I got through it though.
To answer the question about will my feet still go numb, yup! My back didn't hurt all that bad though, but my feet certainly went numb. The chiropractor thinks it's nerve related and not circulation related since my feel will wake back up randomly or partially during the walk. They also come back pretty quickly after I'm back on level ground and slowing the walk down for the cool down. I'm starting to wonder if it has something to do with where my arms/hands are for the walks. Next week I might learn more about that since the goal next week is to walk slow and not hold the bars. We shall see how that goes.
This walk had a decent sized section downhill. The downhill stuff is great for my breathing and helps the heart rate come down. However, it also kills my arms since I push on the bars to keep from falling into the machine. This is normally a good thing to me since it's like getting and arm/back workout too. However, this afternoon, I went to check the mail and decided that the driveway needed to be shoveled since it was covered in ice and I'm afraid that someone will fall while delivering me a UPS package. At our rental, I would have three feet of snow on the front step and not care, but here, I have nightmares about lawsuits. The driveway is a lot longer and we have a sidewalk. There wasn't a sidewalk at the rental.
Anyway, I started off trying to clear the thing down to pavement, but it was killing me. I lasted maybe 10 to 15 minutes and then I needed a break. All that bending was not good for my back and all of that slamming the ice scraper into the ice was killing my arms. After a couple trips, I decided to just go for the top layer approach. I stayed upright and just used the scraper to take off the top layer and then I stood upright while I used the shovel like a snow plow and pushed all the ice chunks into the grass. I got done about five minutes before hubby was done with work so he got out of doing the entire driveway. With any luck, it won't just re-freeze tonight. I'm sure it will get to freezing though since it's like 36 degrees out right now. I hope that it will warm up enough to melt enough so we can get one more scrape going on it tomorrow and I'll just skip the treadmill tomorrow. :) After all the work I did out there today, I deserve a day off and I've gone a full seven days in a row with 2 mile walks on the treadmill. I'm ready for a break. Maybe I'll do the 10 minute stretching thing from Zac Marion from the Southern Utah Walking Mini Series.
Oh! One thing I forgot to mention!!! Check out my heart rate! I think my recovery rate was pretty good with this one. Admittedly though, I did not get my heart rate up super high for a prolonged period of time, so it might not be a good test, but it looks pretty cool that it followed the hill line pretty well until I picked up the speed during the downhill section. I was happy. I hope I can walk tomorrow! OMG! The shoveling was such a bad idea. It's crazy though. Our driveway gets zero sun so if we get a tiny amount of snow like 1/2" like we did yesterday, it won't melt. It just turns to ice. It sucks. I see the people across the street with zero snow in their driveway and they didn't shovel. Even if I shovel, I still have ice! It sucks. Oh well. The exercise is good for me.
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| My walk |
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