Thanks for the 'very you', encouragement dude, it is welcome and very well received.
I have indeed, totally overdone it a few times, and adapt to the new limits afterwards, I confess that the old me would have tried to do 5k from a standing start and crashed and burned. The thing is though, (in the spirit of my post), time passes so bloody fast that if you scale up daily or weekly in small increments you are far down the track much quicker than you expected.
I was talking to someone a couple of months back who had success with weight loss, gained it all back, then had success again, obviously I spoke of mindset but when they listed some MASSIVE weight loss goals, I ran the numbers if you went for something tiny like a half a pound a week with consistent results you would be 52lbs lighter in just 2 years, who wouldn't take that as a locked in guarantee?
BUT it sounds tiny and pathetic when you think of such tiny numbers, we have it wrong, I think, and of course most people would have many weeks where they dwarfed their goal and went further, faster.
I am certain your neighbour is extremely grateful to have you in his life, sometimes a few words from another can make all the difference and illuminate a path they may not have even considered or believed possible. Good on you mate 😎