The ski run you skipped last season

There’s something you do with your body that you’d never give up.

Maybe it’s skiing.

You’ve done it for years, and for most of those years your body kept up.

Last season there was a run you looked at and skipped.

A knee that aches on the drive home. A sore back on Sunday morning.

You’ve started heading in a little earlier, and taking one less run.

You may have tried stretching more, or physical therapy.

During the week, if you work out at all, it’s whatever you have time for.

None of it is built around the thing you actually care about.

It can be.

Workouts built around skiing, with a coach who takes you past where physical therapy stopped.

That’s how the run you skipped last season becomes the one you go looking for.