Ouch! I'm in serious ache mode. Last Saturday I helped my dad fix the interlock brick to my grandparents entrance way at their home. We removed all the brick, laid down some limestone, added railway ties as a border, leveled everything nice, and put the interlock back on. Starting the job at 9 am, I was hoping to have it done by 3 pm. Wrong! Leveling the limestone so the bricks lay with a bit of slope for drainage is not as easy as I remembered it to be. We finished at around 8 pm. Yes, I was hunched over or on my knees for close to 12 hours (insert punchline here). It was all worth it though. My grandfather has been asking me to do it for most of the year and we did a pretty good job. My grandmother was happy with it and that's all that matters.
And now the pain has found a home throughout every inch of my legs. There's some pain in my hands and forearms from carrying and placing the bricks, but it has settled mostly in the inner thighs. I rarely get sore here and realize how important these muscles are when walking...it looks like I've got a cactus in my gitch! To make matters worse, my wife and I have joined a "Learn to Run" program with the Running Room. We're supposed to get in two training runs before our Thursday group runs. I'm happy to say that I did the training run last night and we plan to do another tonight. Yes, it does hurt but the pain is telling me I'm alive and have actually used my body...in a good way.
Hope to get a pic of the finished work and post it here. Legs cramping...gotta go!
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