My two cents - don't force it. If you don't feel motivated to pick up the grind again then don't. Wait for you to naturally get the interest back. Personally, every now and again I lose the will to run and just do something else. I've always eventually picked it back up again after a while.
I love speedrunning for 2 aspects: having visibility (people watching my runs and looking me up on the leaderboards) / being a part of a community (streaming, being active in the forums, watching other runners...). These reasons are the main ones that keep me running, but loving the game I run and wanting to play it also helps of course
Probably demons.
...well that and some hand and physical issues. I've always enjoyed watching and speedrunning non-competitively, but I took up actively competing and posting videos in part because I felt I didn't have much to lose if I was terrible any more. Without speedrunning, I probably wouldn't be gaming at all.
That said, certainly doesn't help to try to force things. Wait for inspiration. Nothing and no one is telling you you have to speedrun.
When you think about trying to speedrun again, what would you say prevents you from doing it? What isn't as appealing anymore? I think that's what you need to determine.
i dont know
havent done speedrunning without it being a joke for a while what i am doing right now is super mario kart time trials
Something that keeps me going is the desire to do it better. It's perfectionism on a personal best level. I can also only do this with games that I really enjoy, even after playing them dozen of times. I also try some games that haven't been run before and there the motivation is also something different: to find the strategy to run it the fastest.
I pretty much just got a curiosity to see what the fuzz was about, and boy did I get hooked on it. Seeing people perform these crazy inputs, all while keeping up pretty much the same pace throughout looks super rewarding. I blame the GDQ runs for this lol.