These Boots are Made for Walking

I passed a milestone today, literally. Shortly before my knee surgery, I could barely walk a couple blocks without having to stop because of the pain. Today I walked non-stop for half an hour outside, walking over 1.5 miles.

It felt great to be able to do it without massive amounts of pain. I did have some aching, but that was just some mild muscle pain from not walking that much for a long, long time.

Now, I'm not about to enter any marathons any time soon, but it was almost a year ago that I would have second thoughts about getting off the couch to walk to the kitchen. It isn't much in the grand scheme of things, but sometimes the small victories can be pretty sweet if they are a long time coming.