What to do...

Well good morning folks, I hope all of you are doing great!

I've had a busy week and have gotten a lot accomplished both at home and at work. Monday I went to Hot Yoga hoping it would help my "hurtin hips" and although it was too painful to get into some of the deeper hip opening exercises, I did pretty good. It has been quite some months since I was last there and quite frankly I missed it. Thoroughly enjoyed the 90 minutes.

And Tuesday, my hips felt better. So when I had my personal training session after work, she normally works my legs on Tuesdays so I told her I wanted to only do upperbody and give my legs one more day of healing. So that's what we did.

Then I went home and my lovely massage terrorist came over to my house. She left the studio that I first met her at last October and went mobile in June. I haven't seen her since then. Well for an hour and a half she worked out the knots in my muscles and it freakin HURT! She kept asking me if we were still friends :) I told her we were that day but I would let her know the next day if we would still be... she laughed.

And although my body is tender to touch the next day, we are still friends because my hip feels much better.

Well it used to until last night.

Kim and I walked another 16Km training session. There were about 50 or so people that showed up for the walk and I was happy because I thought Kim would keep up. She started out well, then slowed right down. I didn't walk with her for about half of the walk but she was getting so far behind I walked back to her (rather than stop) and walked with her again. She picked up her pace with me. At about 10 K, my feet, back and hips were really starting to hurt.

Last April I got new orthotics and had been wearing them all summer with my Nike's. With the longer walks the Nike's were starting to hurt my feet so I stopped wearing them and during my vacation I got a pair of Asics with arch support - no need for my orthotics. And I've been doing my longer walks in the Asics. I've been using the Orthotics in a pair of New Balance that I got in June but only indoors on my treadmill. Last night was the first time outside with the New Balance shoes and the combination just about crippled me by the end of the walk.

Even though I wear double layered socks (not cotton) when I took off my shoes last night, the bottoms of my feet stung. They were burning. I didn't get any blisters thank goodness. Mr. Sandra rubbed my feet a bit and they started to feel a bit better.

It is so obvious that without the right footwear you can certainly affect your entire lower body. Everything hurt from my waist down. So today, I'm at work wearing my work clothes and my  Asics. I don't care what I look like, I wasn't wearing dress sandles. My feet need to feel good and these shoes make my feet feel better.

So for the walk, it's going to have to be only one pair of shoes. They recommend two pairs to trade off but I don't have enough time to wear in another pair of Asics (and they are $200.00 - and can't really afford that right now either) within the next 8 days. I have lots of good socks so will just trade them out throughout the day and bring along a pair of sandles for the end of the day... something that feels like soft cushions for my feet.

Man the things I do to myself :)

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!