Week three, and the running finally feels like a habit

Five runs logged this month: the 1st, 8th, 10th, 13th, and today. Every two or three days, five kilometres, nine minutes a kilometre. Conversational the whole way.

It doesn’t look like much on paper, and it isn’t supposed to. The whole job right now is to let my tendons and connective tissue catch up to my lungs — because as a returning runner, the fitness comes back faster than the chassis can handle. The temptation is to push because it feels too easy. The discipline is not to.

Base is built slow, or it isn’t built at all.