I met with the team down at Liberty Park. Well, part of the team. Okay, just me, Bill, Natalie, Tomy, Abigail, and Dakota. We went on the wood chip part and did 1 lap warmup (which is about 1 and a half miles) and then did 2 laps fireman (where you are in a single file line and the person in the back sprints/runs fast to the front, and so on.) Yeah, it's a totally different experience when you're doing it with fast people. Okay, I remember fireman from the summer as being the easy workout where you just jog and run slightly faster on your turn, and was not expecting it to be quite as difficult as it was. Well, okay I did it twice in the summer the first one easy and the second one hard, but that was only because I was behind a person who loved to pick up the pace a bit when it was my turn, or so I thought until today. The first lap was good. It wasn't super easy, but I could live with it. I was getting a bit tired when we started our second lap, but I was alright. Of course, we picked up the pace that lap. With like 3/4 of a mile left I started having a mental battle. I was considering doing what Dakota did and fall back from the group (the negative zone) or keep up with the group and suck it up (the positive zone). I tried for the second option. But I was falling back quite easily. I tried to focus on Abigail in front of me and stay up with it. And I was the one who had to finish it off. I had fallen back from the group like 8 to 10 meters maybe, and I had to get to the front. I really focused and then I almost had it, but then I mentally lost it again with maybe 50 meters to go if that. I have got to work on that. Then we did a lap cool down. I wasn't in the mood to try to keep up with the group, and I think they got the message because they weren't telling me to keep up with them like they usually do. Maybe it was because I did so bad. But I pushed myself and so that's all that counts, right? Did a little extra to finish it off with 6 miles. At least I wasn't feeling as horrible as yesterday. I think just an energy bar before a morning workout is best for me. | 