Went for a walk outside using the stroller

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I’ve done much shorter walks getting from my daughter’s car to where I have my hair cut, but this was the 1st time since the falls I’ve done a longer walk outside. Combined there and back was about 140 yards. It wasn’t an unaided walk(those days aren’t coming back) and I wasn’t on my own, but I think I did OK.

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Congratulations! I bet it was nice to get outside in the sunshine :sun:

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Good going.

Do you think you can continue to increase the distance?

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This may sound odd, but my arms get achy before my legs do. It takes about 3 minutes for them to start aching , whereas leg pan kicks in after 10 mins or so.

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Hey FM, that’s great news, well done :slight_smile: how was the weather?

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Good job man

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Thankfully not raining. It’s rained quite a lot recently.

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Many, many congratulations @firemonkey

As long as you bear in mind the 10% rule - ie don’t increase your weekly distance by more than 10% - to avoid injuries, and also have a rest day if you need it after an exercise day, I, personally can’t see how someone in your position can’t gradually increase the distance you cover, bit by steady bit.

For what it’s worth: there are so many examples of people out there who only took up regular exercise in their 70’s, and then went on to complete seriously incredible goals (eg marathons or IronMan events).

But you don’t have to want to do such things to be able to draw inspiration from the principle of it - that neither age nor some degree of infirmity - are barriers to giving it a go.

And feeling achey and tired after some exercise is par for the course, I’m afraid. However, the muscles can and will adapt; our bodies really are remarkable like that, and over time you’ll be able to cover ever-longer distances, and need less-and-less recovery time.

Many, many congratulations again - I take my hat off to you!

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Good going @firemonkey!

Congratulations!

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Thanks, all of you. It’s about balancing hopefulness with realism. Seeking improvement while being pragmatic,and sensible, about risk.

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You got this!

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