Fitness

Five years

Stats are fun. I got this from Map My Walk today: Exactly five years ago today you joined the MapMyWalk community. In that time you recorded 388 workouts, burned 136268 calories, and traveled 1450 miles (2334 km). Congrats on making it this far! I know there are many walks, particularly on vacation that I don’t […]

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Post-surgery

My body holds memories. It’s how I remember what I wore to an event 3 years ago or what I was thinking at certain points on a car trip 5 years ago. Time and events time-stamp my body with memories. Death anniversaries wear an especially deep groove in the body-time experience. I find that accidents

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Season Bookends

I rode my bike today on the way to the gym. A first, and a long time coming since I’ve been going to this gym for almost a year. (Note: a year? How did that happen?) With Veteran’s Day, the uni is closed but the gym is open. I rode to the gym, took a

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Posture

I was referred to the ergonomics people at work to make sure my workstation was set up properly, facilitated comfort in my surgery recovery, and prevented future problems. The expert walked in and immediately said that not only was my set up all wrong, but that I was was interfacing with it improperly. Joy. After

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Neck

As the spinal cord travels from the brain down through the spine, it sends out nerve branches between each vertebrae called nerve roots. These nerve roots join together to form the nerves that travel throughout the body and form the body’s electrical system. The nerve roots that come out of the cervical spine form the

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