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Another 5am day. High fives! In attendance: Heather (our injured and therefore sidelined coach), Rizzi, John, Patrice, Nicolette, Brian and me.

Cross-training. Met at the Niskayuna High School track. Did a warm-up lap or two, some stairs repeats (x3), jumping jacks, etc. At one point Heather had the grand idea of pairing us up and having one of us carry the other across the infield, then switch off. It was more funny than anything. Well, OK, it was pretty tiring too. (I shoulda given her my camera to take video.)

Some hundred meter sprints for time. (x3) More stairs (x3), some hurdles (tackled in unique and various ways by each of us) (x1, since none of us were willing to put our heart into it and likely injure ourselves). Then two cool down laps. Nope, make that three. Coach is sneaky.

We thought we were done, but Nicolette said “Wait, what about the situps?” H HAD mentioned those earlier, but forgot. THANKS, Nicolette. It became painfully obvious that I have no core strength. I’m sure I looked like a turtle on his back thrashing about pitifully. Nice. I run strong, then finish with THAT. That’s the image I want to finish with.

Anyway… back to the H&R’s crib for another scrumptious oatmeal/strawberry/almond/banana/walnut breakfast. Almost as good as the pancakes yesterday.

All that, AND I’m the FIRST ONE at my office this morning at 7:35ish. Good stuff. I feel great. A tad tired, of course, but energized. Ready for a rousing day of IT work (Information Technology, for you acronym-impaired readers). IT work doesn’t exactly get my blood flowing, so I have to supplement my daily activities with stuff like this week’s PRO Team.

Suit up. Get out. And get on the road. Or at least put the remote down.

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