Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Nov 16 2004
Shin Splints
I had too much to do to get on the treadmill this morning and walk going nowhere, so I took a look at a clock and spent 35 minutes doing some clutter control around the house. I emptied wastebaskets, carried dirty laundry to the washer, took stacks of paper to the recycle bag and did other small tasks that probably didn't provide a lot of calorie-burning activity, but which still gave me a good sustained 35 minutes of activity. Unfortunately, I did it all in house slippers, and I must have misused some leg muscles, because I'm paying for it with shin splints.
There's something maddening about shin splints. The pain makes you frustrated. You meant well with all that motion, but in your attempt to sustain healthy activity you somehow managed to overbalance the upper portion and put unintended stress on the lower portion of the structure, which is the part that has to manage the final weight of things. You don't realize until later how much it hurts. And then it's too late to take back the steps that led you to the discomfort. All you can do is try to take it easy and hope the shooting pains don't last too long.
I could say much the same thing about the growing number of post-election cabinet changes.
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I had too much to do to get on the treadmill this morning and walk going nowhere, so I took a look at a clock and spent 35 minutes doing some clutter control around the house. I emptied wastebaskets, carried dirty laundry to the washer, took stacks of paper to the recycle bag and did other small tasks that probably didn't provide a lot of calorie-burning activity, but which still gave me a good sustained 35 minutes of activity. Unfortunately, I did it all in house slippers, and I must have misused some leg muscles, because I'm paying for it with shin splints.
There's something maddening about shin splints. The pain makes you frustrated. You meant well with all that motion, but in your attempt to sustain healthy activity you somehow managed to overbalance the upper portion and put unintended stress on the lower portion of the structure, which is the part that has to manage the final weight of things. You don't realize until later how much it hurts. And then it's too late to take back the steps that led you to the discomfort. All you can do is try to take it easy and hope the shooting pains don't last too long.
I could say much the same thing about the growing number of post-election cabinet changes.
posted at: 09:27 | category: | link to this entry
