My Journey With Health And Fitness – Feeling My Age

I got back late Wednesday night from my New England/Canada cruise with my sister. It was a wonderful time. She had never been to the east coast so everything was new to her. While we had a bumpy start getting there, everything went well once we arrived. We enjoyed all of the tours we took, got to learn an awful lot, were spoiled by all the crew and quite frankly got to just spend some sister time together. Unfortunately, I only had one full day at home before I flew off to Cancun to spend some time at the condo in Playa. We got here late yesterday afternoon then got all of the shopping done today.

I woke up yesterday morning thinking crap, I’m 4 months away from 60 and sometimes I forget that. I feel pretty great and am quite fit. However, I did some stuff that probably were not a good idea. In Quebec City they didn’t have a pusher form my sister’s wheelchair so they asked if I could get her to the gate. Even though she is a pretty big girl I thought it would be ok. You add to that I was lifting our very heavy suitcases onto scales and picking them up off of the arrival’s carousel along with often packing both of our heavy carryon bags and I was putting in a pretty good workout and I think I may have over done it.

I got up yesterday morning with a pretty significant to do list given I was leaving again for nearly 6 weeks. I got in the shower and realized my lower back kind of hurt. Ok, really it hurt but having gone through nerve issues in my back I knew it was muscular. It hit me that maybe, just maybe, at 4 months shy 60 lugging around 2 50lb suitcases, pushing a heavy wheelchair and lugging 2 large personal items wasn’t the best idea. The ironic part was my back hurts so much that traveling through the 2 airports yesterday I had to request a wheelchair!

The bottom line is right now, not being able to even bend down to put my shoes and socks on, I am definitely feeling my age. I’m not going to be doing any online classes at the fitness centre for possibly all of next week but am hoping to at least get out and do some gentle walking (you know, I have to see all my kitties). But, I’m not pushing it because I would rather safely recover than push myself to have the back pain exist for even longer.