On getting older...

I am old.

I am also prone to stoutness.

That being said, and understood presumably, I have to engage in athletic endeavors every couple of days or I will end up carrying more weight than I am comfortable with. Some days this is weight work, others it is yoga, and as the weather has been getting nicer, I have been jogging again.

But because I am old, and have a history of injuries*, this requires a certain amount readying.

Yesterday, this required supports for both ankles and neoprene wraps on one of my knees and one of my elbows.

I know it is ridiculous, you know it is ridiculous, but what am I going to do?

*Some of them more recent than others. The elbow was from February and last spring, after getting myself in a shape that I was not unhappy with, I learned that my knee was bone on bone at certain places. After a long, and well fed, winter, I realize I can deal with the pain. I say this now, but I reserve the right to whine about it. Others are from high school and college, I have gotten used to those.