My Journey With Health And Fitness – Oops, Forgot About The Arthritis

Holy crap it was hot today. We went down to 5th Ave to do some shopping and go for lunch. Then we had to pick up a few groceries for the condo. After that it was get together with an awesome group of women to play Bunco (a funky dice game at which I am apparently really bad at). When that was over it was having a few drinks by the pool. Yep, an awesome day.

Yesterday I went out on my walk and after about 10 minutes I realized the humidity was definitely getting to me. By that I mean the bad knee was reminding me that the change in atmospheric pressure was not a good thing. Don’t get me wrong, I am not one of those people who claims to be able to predict the weather by the pain in my leg, it really just bothers me when there is a change in the barometric pressure and the arthritis starts screaming. That means going from White Rock, BC to Playa del Carmen Mexico makes my knee hurt.

So what to do, well for me it means suck it up and keep walking because really keeping that joint moving will be the best solution. But there is a few other things I can do. Firstly, instead of a 2nd walk yesterday I did a bike ride with my husband. This was actually quite comical because he ditched me about 1/2 way into the ride because apparently I was going way to fast for him. In all honestly, he wanted to do a leisurely ride while I wanted a workout. Eventually we met back up at the condo. On top of that I started using and anti-inflammatory cream to make my knee a little happier.

Going forward a neighbour has agreed we will do 1 hour swimming sessions 3 times a week and I can’t wait. The biking and swimming are the perfect type of exercises to keep me working but not aggravate the arthritis, Here’s hoping the neighbour keeps to that commitment.

Just a heads up, Saturday is the King’s coronation which means getting up really early. Please forgive me if I don’t post, either I am way too enthralled by the coronation or I am exhausted from getting up so early.