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Listen·Apr 12, 2026·1 min read

Ep 03 | First Run in Twenty Years

I haven't run in twenty years. Not jogged, not trained, nothing. And lately, my body has been making that very clear. Low energy, poor sleep, and a general feeling of not being in the shape I used to be.

So I did something about it. I asked Claude AI for a realistic return-to-running program for someone coming back after two decades, followed the advice, and went out the door.

This episode is a journal entry about that first run. What pushed me to finally move, what the AI actually recommended, and why I think getting physically fit again might be the thread that pulls a few other things back into place, too.

No fitness motivation here. Just an honest account of starting over.

Pieter Borremans

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Pieter Borremans

Writer·Content creator·Founder

Based in Taichung, Taiwan and London, UK, this is Pieter's personal journal and builder's blog: field notes on entrepreneurship, solo business-building, and the unfiltered reality of creating online. Alongside it, he's chasing one absurd goal in public, $168M USD in lifetime earnings, tracked live from zero.