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it's been a lot of months since my last run, but i returned today to my beloved blacktop for about 3 and a half miles. after 5 steps i asked myself, "why did i ever stop doing this?" and then after another 100 steps i answered: "oh yeah, tha'ts why".

i stopped running because i wanted to start squatting and the two interfere. then i started climbing, too, and the knee-wrenching moves that i began to perform 2x/week really didn't mesh with the 2-3x/week knee-poundings i got from running. so i stopped running and my squats and my climbing improved.

next weekend (!!!) 203 is arriving sometime around noon (none too soooon) and i wont have time for a hike. so i decided, wisely, to run next weekend, and (this is the wise part) to give it a trial run (har!) today to get myself re-acclimated so i won't be too dft next week at her arrival. whelp, now i'm acclimated.

it's depressing how quickly i've lost my running stamina. at 3 miles i was thinking, "i've done 10 miles before? bullshit!" breakfast was struggling to come out and say hi, the whole time. after, i was (am!) flushed and tired-ish.

but it does still have the nice effect of being an appetite depressant, a quality i've clearly been lacking since i stopped running and began packing on the jiggly.