Add: sortir du stade

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+date = '2025-10-16T00:1:00+02:00'
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+tags = [ "running" ]
+title = 'Leaving the track'
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+I skipped the second session this week.
+Or maybe I just hit my limit.
+Running in circles around a stadium — again and again — it wears you down.
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+Last time, I finished strong, the last five minutes flat out.
+Today, I just needed air. Asphalt. Dirt.
+Exit the track.
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+I started easy. Legs felt good.
+Bit by bit, I picked up the pace without really meaning to.
+It felt great — almost freeing.
+
+I told myself I’d try to keep it up for thirty minutes.
+Nothing guaranteed.
+A few times, I wanted to stop, just for a moment — but no.
+At worst, I slowed down for a hundred meters, then got back into it.
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+I felt good.
+Deep breaths, steady rhythm.
+And then I passed the 4 km mark.
+5 km under 30 minutes suddenly seemed possible.
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+So I didn’t let go. Not until the end.
+I wanted to see what I had in me.
+A first real test — rough, improvised, but real.
+There had to be a first one anyway.
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+The first kilometer was too relaxed, really.
+Right there, I could easily shave off a minute.
+The margin’s there — now it’s just about keeping on.
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+Keeping on leaving the track, breathing outside air,
+and, above all, keeping those easy runs.
+Because, as they say:
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+> to learn to run fast, you must first learn to run slow.
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+Maybe I’ll even add a third easy session during the week.
+But that, I’ll let my body decide.
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