I’m about to attempt a trek from my house to the grocery store and back again, because I want to get back into the habit of regular walks. It’s going to be a little bit of a challenge — I’ve been doing short walks around the house, but I think I can handle a whole kilometer and a half, because maybe I’m getting overconfident.
If I’m not back by noon, call out the helicopters and the search parties. (I also have an ace in the hole: Morris has an informal bus service where you just call and they eventually deliver you right to your door. Don’t worry.)
I’m back, call off the emergency search teams. It took an hour and a half to walk there and back? I’m getting so slow.
Beware the mud puddles.
Two men describe discovering woman trapped in Minnesota mud for three days
Walking 30 minutes a day, or more, has worked for me after my TAVR procedure 6 years ago, and it’s worked for my wife after her complete knee replacement last year.
All the steps add up! I’m about to walk to the kitchen for another twinkie.
Congrats on finishing that longer walk, PZ. Keep on keeping’ on.
Sorry PZ. I have never been to Willie’s Supervalu.
PZ, the exercise is important. The speed is not. As I’ve commented before. As a friend once told me:
Talk fast, walk slow and keep on truckin’
A kilometer and a half in an hour and a half, that’s (thinks hard) a pace of 1 Km/h.
That is very very slow, unless it was 1.5Km each way.
Presumably, since it was a trip to the shop, you came back with a bag of shopping.
Extra load, right?
No. No. You got the last comment back to front. You are not getting so slow. You have got so slow and are now speeding up. Before you know it, you will be doing the local marathon.
Cheers
Andrew
If I didn’t care about and appreciate what PZ is going through, I’d make a big point about how slow he was. And, I wouldn’t even take into account that it included some time spent time in the grocery store, which would add non-walking time to the total and that he probably needed to be a little slower and more careful with a bag of groceries.
But, as someone said already: Talk fast, walk slow and keep on truckin’ and progress in your healing at a safe, leisurely pace.
shermanj, when I literally listen to PZ on the tube, I speed it up to 1.35x.
Then his cadence sounds more or less normal to my ears.
You should one day try to listen to Castilian as spoken by natives.
Here:
Nie, danke! Es erklinkt wie insekten surrend.
Heh.
Imagine young Juan-Ramón at age 14 in South Australia.
Same articulation rate as in that video, but with a limited lexicon and a terrible accent.
Similar tempo.
Point being, PZ speaks remarkably slowly, by world standards.
I can hardly imagine him talking fast.
And, rather amusingly, your claim (since the three clauses are conjunctions) boils down to “keep on walking slow”.
(That is not a nice outcome, is it? ‘Get better’ would be better.
@12 Must you pester someone in every thread over such trivial, pedantic things that massage your own ego?
@13 Must you pester me in some threads over such trivial, pedantic things that massage your own ego?
Here, for you: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/woodruff/rose-library/keep-on-truckin-the-raymond-danowski-and-john-martin-collection-of-r-crumb-material
(You keep on trying to pester me, that’s fine. It’s not unprecedented. But I shall respond to your pestering)
Before the next walk, give it a couple of days to see if the knee reacts in any way (swelling, redness etc), this can sometimes happen if you do too much too soon.
Dear PZ, many of us commenting express that we care about your health and progress. You should ignore the chittering of inane self-absorbed insects, the rest of us appreciate what you offer here. I know you will take whatever time you deem appropriate and heal fully.
Knee pain happens days after and then lasts, in my experience. I hope in addition to planning this trip, you planned to do nothing (even less than you are doing now) for two days.
But beware! I walked at least 6000 paces daily for 1000 consecutive days (plus more before the ‘break’, which occurred only because I forgot my pedometer), and my achilles tendon may never recover.