last year i started taking little walks around my neighborhood for enrichment and whatnot, see, and iāve been more or less keeping up with them barring those 3 months i couldnāt walk. and thereās some pretty big hills around, so thereās some stairs on this route i like to take. and even though i know stairs are a bit of a workout, deep down it was a little embarrassing to me at first, realizing iād let my cardio fitness slip so badly that i needed multiple breaks to catch my breath on a single staircase. it got better as i kept at it, of course, but i would still internally wince a little at the fact that iād get so winded on those stupid stairs. theyāre just some rickety old hillside stairs by my house, i thought, they shouldnāt take it out of me THIS badly
it was only within the past few months that i got to a point where i was like okay, this is reasonable. theyāre not EASY, but if i pace myself i can take the stairs all at once without gasping for air. thatās not too bad. thereās room for improvement and i still get a little winded but thatās a reasonable amount of tired to be, i reckoned, itās one staircase but itās kind of a long staircase. iād always known it was kinda long.
except i recently found out i was underselling it a bit, there. turns out itās a VERY long staircase. itās āappears in tour guides and news articlesā long, actually. itās āannual citywide step challenge eventā long. itās āi canāt tell you the number of steps without doxxing myselfā long. and for almost a year i had no idea, because itās nearby and not very fancy looking and i thought it was just Some Stairs and i was really badly out of shape. but no, iāve accidentally been doing insane superhell cardio this whole time. iām pretty sure iām currently in better shape than i was running cross country in high school. the big hill by my parentsā house feels like flat ground to me now.
i donāt even know where iām going with this. i guess the point is sometimes you are not uniquely ill-equipped for a thing, sometimes that thing is actually just really difficult. and sometimes you donāt realize this and end up holding yourself to insane standards for no reason. but also this can end up benefiting you in the end? idk. maybe i should participate in that step challenge this year or something
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