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arthritis sucks on a rainy morning walk

I was only in excruciating pain for the last 20 minutes, the first 30 were mildly comtemplative when I had planned to be "extra meditative" after reading lizmck's post this morning.  I keep telling myself, "mind over matter." I think I do a relatively good job of daily focusing my mind off of my everyday arthritis pain, but sometimes focus can be difficult in severe pain.  Still, I was surprised to tie my best time in this walk when I felt like I was dragging with no tunes and aching joints.  I've been working on pushing myself to finish strong and sprint as much as a person can when she is already walking as fast as she can.

Workout Date: 
Sat, 03/13/2010 (All day)
Feat: 
1.) General Exercise

Tags: walking

on 03.13.10 at 10:42 by vajardin | 4 Comments

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Hi-

I was reading your post about arthritis and I can relate.  My mom has pretty severe arthritis in her legs and is a big time walker.  For the past 6 months she has successfully been using wintergreen and marjoram oil rubbed onto her knees and found AMAZING relief from arthritis pain.  Both oils are natural anti-inflammatories  If you are into alternative healing you can get the oils at www.youngliving.org/nycoils or you can email me back at frankwild1@hotmail.com  with any ??'s  (ps, epsom salt baths also help with joint pain!)

Submitted by frankwild1 on 03.13.10 at 11:16.

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Thanks for the info!

Submitted by vajardin on 03.13.10 at 12:34.

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Bummer about the arthritis but congrats on matching your PR! Since the two year old won't be with you this coming week, how about we do a walk together? Maybe we can push each other :)

Submitted by syrupandhoney on 03.13.10 at 11:18.

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sounds good to me

Submitted by vajardin on 03.14.10 at 11:37.

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