My body's calves are barking

I kicked off the week’s training with a run up a long hill. My body set the alarm off in my calves and the rest of the relatively short, easy run was brutal.

This made me think of the importance of stretching my body. I still have yet to do that, and it’s been two days since that happened. But at least I thought about it (?).

I am realizing that there’s an emerging category of taking care of my body in the form of stretching and hydration. It often gets lumped in with nutrition or even exercise, but it feels important enough to have its own category.