Fitness

I spent most of my life opting out of sport. No particular reason — it just wasn't part of my identity. Then last year I decided that was a choice I was making, not a fact about me. So I changed it.

I built a training split. I learned how to eat. I showed up consistently enough that hard things stopped feeling hard. They just became Tuesday.

Somewhere in that process I also let go of the gym culture idea that running is the enemy of muscle. It isn't. I'm doing both now. My body is fine. Better than fine, actually.

This year I signed up for the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge — 3.5 miles in May, target 35 minutes.

The longer goal isn't a race time. It's strength and endurance. It's longevity.