People runningIt can be pretty intimidating to get into running for the first time, as anyone who’s trained for their first 5k or even marathon knows.But once you’ve begun to feel a little more comfortable in your running shoes, it can prove just as tricky getting back into the activity. Some research has found that ten years after a running event, half of joggers had quit.I am among them. I ran about 60km a week from 2019-2020, which stopped once I moved out of college and into the “real world.”My attempts to get back into it seemed to confirm it wasn’t for me anymore. I felt slow, sore, and frankly embarrassed that neither my mileage nor my speed was up-to-scratch.If you’re in a similar boat, here’s what helped me to break the four-year hiatus in the past four months – and even helped me to cover further distances than I’d ever managed before.