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Languishing

2022.01.04 Tuesday I’m in a bit of a limbo period right now.  December, ‘21 started great, with a plan to do 5K every day for 31 days.  I was looking at it as a challenge:  could I actually do it?   The short answer is “no”.  Not because I gave up, or because I didn’t have the discipline, but because I’m a fat 52 year old who forgets that he’s not a thin 30 year old.  About 4 days in, I started to get a pain in my foot.  I kept at it for a few days, even getting creative when I was in NYC to walk to a Planet Fitness since my hotel didn’t have a treadmill.  But on the 7th, the pain was so bad that I could hardly walk.  It was devastating and disappointing.  So I stopped.  I had to. I took a week or so off and really didn't do much exercise at all.  I then started getting on the stationary bike at home, just to try to keep my aerobic capacity from slipping too much.  I was feeling ready to get back on the road. Then on ...