The weather has been great, and I have been walking and biking a lot

 Finally late spring/early summer has arrived. I have walked, I have sat in the forest with Inger, drinking bubbly, I have biked to the lake to swim, once alone, and once with hubby. Yes, I am in lots of pain, but I love the feeling of my biking muscles returning after winter. 

It is different with different diseases of course, and for different people, but for me, unless I have an active flare in a specifi joint, moving doesn't make my arthirtis worse. Yes, I did have a little worse pain in my back and hips after walking 20 kilometres last Friday, but the difference between that and when I'm not walking or biking is neglible. And it doesn't hurt my joints in the long run either. It is progressive: every flare means that I get a little worse, but for me exercise doesn't seem to trigger flares. And as I said: it distracts me from the pain.

Yesterday Rickard and I biked 20 kilomtres and tomorrow I will do about the same distance in biking, plus a little over 10 kilometres hiking with my friend Sara along a trail by a river. She's not in a risk group so she can take the bus to the place where we walk, but I have to bike there (and back).

I am looking forward to it, it is a great feeling to be able to go almost wherever you want by yourself. I don't have a driver's license, so biking really means freedom to me.