Ran 12k today, and felt like I found my old legs again.
It's not the first time I've run in my life, but it feels like I'm starting almost from zero. The muscles remember, but the mind needs to be convinced from scratch that this is possible again. The first 3k, everything in me was saying "you've been on a break for a while, take it easy." After that, the old rhythm came back on its own.
"Coming back" is a different feeling from "starting." Starting comes with a kind of blind excitement. Coming back comes with the awareness of already knowing what the fatigue tastes like, and choosing to walk into it again anyway.
There's still a long road ahead before I'm back to the fitness I used to have, and the bigger dream is still far off. But every kilometer today was a brick in that road.
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