Shaking off the rust

One of the feelings I dislike most is that foggy, rusty feeling when you come back to something you haven't touched in a while.

I get it all the time with coding.

You open a part of the codebase you used to know cold and suddenly you're thinking, "Wait... how does any of this work again?" ...or "WHO WROTE THIS? (oh yeah, me)"

I HATE that feeling.

And I had a little bit of the physical version of it this morning.

Between being sick, the ridiculous heat and humidity, and traveling, I hadn't been out on the bike since August 10.

The first few minutes definitely felt rusty. But it felt really good to be back out there.

Then I got home and realized I forgot to hit record on my watch.

So apparently the rust extends to basic button pushing too. Oh well. Still counts.