Took a 6 month break, now what

Are you on a team and are you running an indoor season?

Id rust bust for a few wks then start layering in some more structured training.

That's a huge break. You need a base but can get it while doing indoor. Just be realistic and open-minded about race times.

Do base training + stride + lifting for a month or so. Do workouts and race during the season. If the workouts are too much, back off and get back into base training for a few months. But more likely, the workouts will just be "slow", not destructive.

and do whatever events you want. When you are out of shape, it doesn't matter 1 week from now whether you raced an 800 or a 5k at some random meet.

I’m in like an informal group, so it’s like a team except all meets are optional. I was going to train with my group during indoor but not actually compete in indoor.

I’ll probably do that, just doing regular runs + strides feels rusty right now so I’m going to hold off on workouts for a few weeks.

Yeah I was planning to just not compete during indoor at all. I don’t trust myself to not get in my head about race times if I start that soon, and getting in my head and going too hard too soon is the main reason I ended up needing a massive break in the first place so I’d like to avoid a repeat lol.