A respiratory illness zeroed the engine. Now every mile out of this valley sheds another old habit into the road dust — and every ugly number gets published on the way back to the start line. The rebuild is the story.
Week one of the comeback: five run/walk sessions, roughly an hour each, and the fitness chart finally has a pulse. CTL moved off 0.0 for the first time since the illness. It's a small number. It's everything.
I had a plan: push through. Cosmo had my heart-rate data. Only one of us was right, and it wasn't the one with the green hair.
The first week of numbers: five sessions, 198 TSS, and a fitness score that finally isn't a flat line at the bottom of the chart.
Drops Sunday night. Does CTL keep climbing, or does the body file a complaint? Subscribe and find out with me.
I'm David Presland — lifelong endurance athlete, former avionics engineer, current lab rat of my own comeback. A respiratory illness knocked my fitness to literal zero. Instead of hiding the rebuild, I'm publishing it: every session, every metric, every argument with my AI coach. The gray hair is real. the green is a choice.
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