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Well at some point 'a lazy 10km jog to enjoy the sun' became something I can just do immediately after work and immediately before (changing, rinsing myself off and) going out and being social for a few hours with no real soreness or exhaustion. So that's exciting.
The general sense that exercise is Good For You is one thing but tbh it feels really nice to suddenly realize the walk to the grocery store now talks 2/3 as long and you're not even winded from coming back uphill with a backpack stuffed full of food.
I'll happy accept sharing the trail with bikers (even if dodging to the side to get passed a dozen times in five minutes gets old) and walkers/people with strollers. I am however beginning to nurture a hatred deep in my heart for the people who ride ATVs down it.
made a proper good faith attempt at biking for the first time in 20 years and
a) you really do pick it back up shockingly quickly
b) my eyes being too shitty to ever be trusted with a motorized vehicle, I think this was genuinely the fastest I've ever moved in a situation where steering and control were in my hands? No idea how you maniacs don't have heart attacks going several times the speed in multi-ton death machines every day
c) in retrospect my normal running loop, with all its downward slopes that abruptly end in sharp turns, may not have been the best choice for this.
God just absolutely miserable painful failure of a run today.
Potential explanations
If I spend the entire previous evening wracked with fever and chills from (??? allergic reaction from inhaling a bunch of mold from rolling up and moving old carpets?), it is unsurprising that my lungs aren't fully back together 24 hours later
I just literally need to eat more carbs/sugar/protein, both in general and especially right before runs
Heart and/or lungs broke, doomed forever
Okay posting to correct blog this time but: officially have run a marathon!
But yes - given that I have now spent $80 on a belt with clip-on water bottles and have opinions on different gel-shot flavors, I don't think I can avoid admitting this is just a part of my personality now.
Didn't quite hit my goal time but eh still, first ~official local race of the year and managed a 30:41 5k in the 0 degree sleet. I'll take it.
Night owl/sunset runs where the trail is increasingly a river of multicolored lights from all the headlamps and glowing backbacks are also an oddly magical experience.
