Ever since I proclaimed that I would take a walk every night before bed to help ease the leg cramps that I had been getting in the middle of the night, I had been being really good about actually doing it. Either I walked around the block with Kevin after dinner, or when the weather was bad, we walked around a store somewhere - just for the exercise.
Well, yesterday after work I went to Brazenhead for $3 burger night with Carrie and Sara. We stayed a little bit too long, and by the time I got home, I was beat. I laid down on the couch for a few minutes, and then I headed upstairs. I thought that maybe a nice hot shower would do enough to keep my leg muscles relaxed, since I was too tired to go for a walk.
Needless to say, those walks really work! The one night I didn't do it, I woke up not once, but twice, with horrible charlie horses. The first one was in my right leg at about 1:00 in the morning. I hopped right up out of bed, and walked around for a few minutes until it went away. The second one was in the left leg, at 5:00 AM.
Sigh. Tonight, we are going for a walk. A long one. Even if it is raining. I have a nice, big umbrella to keep dry.
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