I just read a journal entry from 2001, when I did my first (and only) duathlon. It was 18 miles of biking, sandwiched between two 5K races.
I did the first 5K in 28 minutes flat.
I biked 18 miles in something like 55 minutes.
Then I ran the second 5K in under 30 minutes.
I just had no idea that I used to be...almost....FAST. I forgot completely that I had ever run a 5K in under 30 minutes (except for one in Baltimore that I did in 27:20....my PR three weeks before the Vermont City Marathon).
This shouldn't change my perspective, but it does. In a good way. It makes me realize that I can get back to that place again, that place where 10 miles at a 10:33 pace is kind of slow, but okay because it was 80+ degrees that day. The place of the sub-30-minute 5K.
It will just take...wait for it...TIME.
(Well, and a little bit of effort.)
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