12 pull ups

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            .4 seconds today meant that I had to run the full 16 flights in our apartment building.  Ugh.  I certainly can’t blame people who necessitate dodging of pedestrians and dogs—there were only two people on the entire sprint area.  I did think ,
though that my neck might be looking strained—so maybe if I think about how I am being perceived, it will detract from my performance.  I also reached over to find the watch some 5 steps before the finish.  I must stop this practice. 

            I’ve just tested my watch.  I started it and stopped the stop watch as quickly as possible.  I did it in .21 seconds.  So I guess .4 is a perceivable amount of time, but it’s not much.  I just have to push myself ALL THE TIME that I am running the sprint. 

            The keen observer of the info above will see that I did only 7 pull-ups during a mid-run stop, and at the end, I didn’t do 13, which I intended.  I simply didn’t have the muster.  I was wearing gloves because of the 2 degree weather—that may have hindered my pull-ups a bit.

            During the leg-ups, I tried the strategy of thinking about something else.  19 is a whole lot of reps…so I consciously thought about something else while my brain carried on counting.  It was great.  I count in Russian—have done for 27 years—ever since I first learned how to say the numbers in Russian.