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.
