Every Wednesday evening, right in the middle of my training week, I head to my physiotherapy session after work. By that point, my body usually tells the truth. Legs heavy. Hips tight. Shoulders quietly holding stress I didn’t notice during the day. Midweek is always the most honest checkpoint of my training cycle. For almost […]
12
Jan
Jan
Monday shows up quietly on my triathlon calendar. No intervals.No long runs.No alarms set with pressure in my chest. Just space. Today is my full recovery day, the one day of the week where I don’t train at all. Instead of chasing numbers or heart rate zones, I slow everything down. This morning, that looked […]
05
Jan
Jan
It feels really good to sit down and write again. I realized the other day that I had not published a blog post in almost two months. Not because I did not want to write, but because life felt full. Busy in a quiet but intense way. Healing. Rebuilding. Learning how to listen to my […]
01
Nov
Nov
It’s been a while since I last sat down to write a blog post. Life lately has been a swirl of projects, emails, and plans that seem to multiply overnight. But beneath all that busyness, something deeper has been unfolding, a slow, quiet kind of healing. For months, my world revolved around recovery. The crash […]
08
Oct
Oct
The quiet comeback of movement For most of my adult life, walking never counted as a “real” workout. I ran. I swam. I biked for hours under the sun. I trained for triathlons, chased speed, and tracked numbers. Walking was what I did between training sessions, not the training itself. But three weeks ago, everything […]
05
Oct
Oct
A Walk Around the Building A loop around my apartment building is about 500 meters. Normally, that would sound like nothing to me. I’m used to waking up at 5 AM, meditating, stretching, then heading out for a run, swim, or cycling session that lasts two hours or more. Long training sessions are my comfort […]