Ouch. Just...ouch.

[Lyric]

Somebody please kick me in the rear end for being so stupid as to spend most of the summer sitting on my rear in front of the computer. After a mostly sedentary summer, I have spent the first two days of fall semester climbing 150+ stairs a day along with walking several miles up and down steep hills, all within a four-hour time period. I can hardly walk to due the pain in my calf muscles, now. They're so stiff and sore and swollen that they threaten to spasm every time I flex them even a tiny bit, and I find myself trying to walk straight-legged so as not to move them too much. I tried massaging, but it hurts too much to touch them firmly.

I swear, I *did* stretch them before starting off on Monday, which I why I'm able to walk *at all*, I suspect, but ARGH. This sucks.

I need a blackboard, so I can write "I Will Not Be A Lazy Idiot All Summer" about a thousand times.

:banghead:

On a side note, my classes are awesome and I love being back in school. I just wish my calves didn't hurt so much. :(

[MissMillie]

1. remember, never stretch a cold muscle

you're best to do a brisk walk, stretch and THEN climb the stairs.


BTW... summer or fall, you should be getting some exercsie all the time.

[MorningGlow]

2. Oh man, that takes me back

My college was built into the side of a mountain (literally), and the first week back was always painful. We calculated that it was impossible to spend a regular day on campus and NOT climb several staircases. A student might be able to pull it off if they lived in one of three dorms and never went to class, just the cafeteria (but not the mailroom), as they were all on one level. Everything else was up, down, up, down--all day. Our parents hated visiting. Once we got back into shape, we'd bop around like billygoats, but our parents would have to take regular breaks, leaning on a railing, wheezing "Wait a minute!"
:rofl:

...I'd better not visit my campus anytime soon. I think I'd end up acting more like the parents at this point. :blush: