OneAndOneIs2

As long-term readers may remember, I've been a chronic pain sufferer for some years - RSI being the main one, making my job of 8 hours typing a day a very, very long one. Ergonomic keyboard and chair, wrist supports, painkillers... all combined, they just about made it possible to make it through the day. Even so, my wrists were on fire most of the day.

Fortunately, I found that it was all posture-related, and the postural problems were themselves related to not getting enough excercise - ironically, RSI is blamed on too much movement when in fact it was too little that does it. Read Pain Free if you want to know more.

The point being, I had to take up a daily regime including a bunch of yoga-like stretching exercises and some real exercise to - jogging being my choice. I took it up when my neck and shoulders were so stiff and painful I couldn't even lay down comfortably. Jogging loosened them up again. I stuck with it ever since, with only the time changing - from afternoon to early morning.

But lately, it's proved impossible to get to bed early that I can wake up at 5:30 in the morning and leap out of bed, raring to go.

Actually, I've never done that. But I haven't even been able to haul myself painfully out of my nice warm bed in order to stretch and go jogging in the cold and (usually) wet. I've just hit the snooze button a few extra times and had a hot shower.

Result? Decided lack of comfort lately. I can't even sit straight. Driving is the worst - my car makes it very hard to sit straight anyway, the steering-wheel being slightly off-center.

So when I got up this morning and couldn't face the idea of spending all day sitting and typing.. I spent a while stretching out, and went for a long jog. Even managed to fit it in between the bouts of rain.

Felt a LOT better for it when I got back. Burned off a lot of calories, I'm sure, and that's always supposed to be a good thing.

Eating half a crispy peking duck after the shower may have eroded that particular virtue ever-so-slightly, but hell, nobody's perfect...

Besides, if I put on weight I'll be able to skip buying a new belt ;o)