Again!

What's worse than doing an awful work out once? Doing it twice! On May 18, 2011 I did 3x 1k rows with 5 minutes rest in between each attempt. The goal was to get the same time on each attempt and put out 90-95% effort every time. I talked a lot in the post from May 18 about mental toughness, and the importance of overcoming mental defeat. The first time I did this work out, I was scared and felt defeated by the work out before even doing it. However, last night my work out was posted and it was the exact same rowing sets. I really hoped to never have to do this work out ever again, and I was not excited at all to do it again. It is so hard mentally to put yourself through a tough work out more than once. I knew how it made me feel last time, I knew the intervals were long, and rowing is just boring to be honest! I survived last time, but I was once again a little unsure if I could do better today than last week. I went in with the goal to beat all my previous times; 3:57.6, 3:57.3, 3:57.9
I was stoked on my performance today. I tried my best to go to my happy place, and do whatever it took to not think about rowing. Although a 2 second difference does not sound big, that is huge when rowing. The difference between pacing and killing yourself on the rower is the difference between 2-3 seconds/500m. I am a fast rower when the distance is short, but today I proved to be able to pace myself at a faster pace and hold on. Like I said a few days ago, my endurance continues to improve and it really showed in today's work out!
RESULTS:
3:55.0
3:55.0
3:56.7