If you've ever been really fit, and then let it lapse (for way longer than you meant to!) and then regained that fitness, you know what the title of this post is about. There's a point in your training that you know you're on your way back. You just feel it - your clothes fit differently and your muscles have a different tone and you even move differently.
I've reached that point this week. Now, I'm not going to tell you that I consider myself "fit" right now - I still have a ways to go before I'll be satisfied. But I've turned a corner, and fit is just down the block! I can see it! I know I can get there from here! Up to now I wasn't so sure - I was beginning to think that letting my fitness go for anesthesia school had been a grave mistake, because it has been much more difficult to regain this time. If you're over 40, think very carefully before you put your fitness on a back burner! The rebound at this age is not much fun.
If you've let your fitness lapse and you despair of ever regaining it, hang in there and keep training. If you hit a plateau, shake things up with some new moves. Do something completely different from your usual routine: find a workout buddy with a different routine, or take a spin class, or borrow a new DVD, or hire a trainer for a session or two. Most importantly, keep moving!
Nice job! Thanks for the inspiring post to get out the door and run 11 miles when I'm tired and cranky.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I'm still waiting to turn that corner. I know the exact feeling you're talking about and I am anxiously awaiting it, one run at at time.
ReplyDeleteKim, I just finished ten and it felt great! Now, we were a little slow - my social runs are all about the gossip! But I feel fantastic!
ReplyDeleteLeah, I can't believe that you don't feel that way every single second. You look so fit and strong! I've been fit and strong in the past, though, and I want to be there again!
Way to go! It will only get better from here!
ReplyDeleteYAY!!! what a gret feeling!
ReplyDeletegreat post. i think it's where i'm at too. my training seemed to click a bit this week. yay for us :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, everybody! :)
ReplyDelete11 months off of hard training (even though I ran two marathon in that time) has left my body just completely a stranger to me. HATE IT!! But I'm trying to chisle back the old body, it's just slower than I thought. It will come, thanks for the inspiration!
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