I think training’s a kind of season for the body—just like a plant that blooms, then quiets down to root itself. If you pace your workouts like a sprouting seed, you get the same cycle of quick growth, a slow steady phase, and a recovery pause that lets everything settle, so you’re not pruning yourself away too hard. And that little pause, that breathing in between, feels a lot like the quiet after a storm, when the leaves open up again.

I love that image—roots steady, shoots reaching, a gentle pause that’s still a push, not a stop. Let’s keep that rhythm like a slow wind through leaves, always moving, always listening.