Treadmill Time

Just a quick update on Pat's walking.  Monday evening he walked 8 minutes on the treadmill, which may not sound like much but he kept an incredibly even gate the entire time he walked, even though he did take a few breaks for 10 or 20 seconds.  We figured out that at the rate he is going, he is currently walking a two hour mile.  Unless he wants to get run over by the Forth Of July Parade, he's going to have to step it up.  He walked about 0.07 miles.  Not bad after a few weeks (months) hiatus.  He also let me convince him to get into the pool afterward and do a little walking, not much, but enough to help his muscles loosen up a bit.

Now the part I am really proud of.  He got on the treadmill all by himself!  I was on an elliptical a few machines back and I was so impressed at the initiative he showed.  He didn't tell me he was going to do it, I just looked over and saw him halfway on.  It took a lot of self control not to run over to be his spotter and I had to close my eyes a few times when it got dicey but he managed to do it all himself.  In fact I had to yell over to him and ask him to wait to start walking until I got done with the elliptical.  It just goes to show how much progress he is making because usually it takes both of us to get him on, and usually there is at least one point where we both almost fall over.  Good thing our gym has nice wide aisles, right?