last year i started taking little walks around my neighborhood for enrichment and whatnot, see, and iâve been more or less keeping up with them barring those 3 months i couldnât walk. and thereâs some pretty big hills around, so thereâs some stairs on this route i like to take. and even though i know stairs are a bit of a workout, deep down it was a little embarrassing to me at first, realizing iâd let my cardio fitness slip so badly that i needed multiple breaks to catch my breath on a single staircase. it got better as i kept at it, of course, but i would still internally wince a little at the fact that iâd get so winded on those stupid stairs. theyâre just some rickety old hillside stairs by my house, i thought, they shouldnât take it out of me THIS badly
it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. theyâre not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. thatâs not too bad. thereâs room for improvement and i still get a little winded but thatâs a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, itâs one staircase but itâs kind of a long staircase. iâd always known it was kinda long.
except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out itâs a VERY long staircase. itâs âappears in tour guides and news articlesâ long, actually. itâs âannual citywide step challenge eventâ long. itâs âi canât tell you the number of steps without doxxing myselfâ long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because itâs nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, iâve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. iâm pretty sure iâm currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parentsâ house feels like flat ground to me now.
i donât even know where iâm going with this. i guess the point is sometimes you are not uniquely ill-equipped for a thing, sometimes that thing is actually just really difficult. and sometimes you donât realize this and end up holding yourself to insane standards for no reason. but also this can end up benefiting you in the end? idk. maybe i should participate in that step challenge this year or something
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