Update: 2026-09-06 — how-it-felt narrative + physical notes (achilles, numbness, lvl-0 reframe)

Runs/2026-09-06.md

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 ## How it felt
 
-> *(No comment yet — screenshot arrived without the narrative. The "how it felt" line matters more today than any number.)*
+> "Left achilles was tight again for the first 2 km, and only slight but numbing feet around 5 km. Other than that I feel like my stamina is down, my lung capacity feels smaller compared to the memory of my starting performance when I started peaking. But if I remember/know correctly my HR was always on the higher side no matter what. But these tempos are truly feel slow for me. I know I am not at lvl 0 where I started in May but I feel like I am."
 
 ## Comparison
 
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 **Verdict:** Two wins, one miss — and the wins are the bigger story. **Win 1 — the distance negotiation held.** Friday he floated 9 km for this run; the plan said 6, he ran 6.07. Week 1 closes with its 3-run floor: 3.01 + 5.04 + 6.07 = 14.1 km vs 12 planned (the overshoot is Friday's 5.04, not today). **Win 2 — he went at all.** After a morning that read "rest" (HRV 74 below range, productive cough, temp dysregulation), showing up and finishing the distance is the loop staying on. **The miss — effort.** 22 anaerobic minutes + 1 extreme at 6'55" — compare the controlled benchmark two runs earlier: 148 bpm at 6'29". Same body, five days apart: +9 bpm at +26s/km. That's the post-illness "hot HR at easy pace" signature (Aug 29: 157 @ 7'08"), not fitness loss — VO₂Max held 46 and HR recovery worked (176→137 = 39 bpm real 2-min drop despite the displayed 19). The pace proves he wasn't pushing; the HR proves the body was still paying for the week. Tonight is a "kinda" drinking night — Monday's HRV is the receipt, and Wednesday's easy 3.5 km (week 2 opener) is where this week's bill lands either way.
 
+**Physical notes:** Left achilles tight for the first 2 km, resolved during the run — the warm-up pattern (like the right ankle), but the left side is a new spot; logged, and worth watching if it ever stops resolving. Mobility floor applies directly: ankle circles both sides + gentle calf work. Slight numbing feet from ~5 km — the known foot-numbness signature (transverse arch; Jogflow 190.1's ceiling ~4 km) arriving later and milder than the old 3–4 km trigger, but it's the shoe limit and the long run grows to 7 km next Sunday. The stability shoes are now the gating item for the block — this pattern is arriving exactly on schedule.
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+**On "I feel like I'm at lvl 0":** the feeling is real, the claim isn't. VO₂Max is **46 now vs 42 at the July peak** he's remembering, and May's lvl 0 couldn't run 2 km without walking — today was 6.07 km on an infection morning. What changed isn't the engine: five days ago (Sep 2) the same body ran 6'29" at 148 bpm and it felt fine. The slow-feeling tempos + high HR are the illness/debt/heat tax (same signature as Aug 29), and his "HR was always high" memory is correct — his easy band has always been ~148–158; textbook 135–140 was never his reality. The dial isn't HR alone, it's HR *at a given pace* vs his own recent baseline: 157 at 6'55" is the tax; 148 at 6'29" is where it returns when sleep and recovery cooperate.
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 ## Connected
 
 - [[Sleep/2026-09-06]]