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If you've been doing Crossfit for a while, you know about the dark place. It's the place that we all have to go sometimes. You see the workout and you develop your strategy. 3...2...1...GO. And then everything goes to hell. You lose all control of everything. Your abandon all strategy and it's a freakin' free for all.
You start to panic. Everything is going to shit and everything's closing in around you.
That's when you have to go to the dark place. It's different for everybody.
My dark place is quiet. I can only hear myself and the non-sound of time running out. I can't really see anything but my weights. Usually when I get to the dark place, I'm beating myself up. "why didn't you stay on pace?" "why did you think this strategy would work?" "what are you doing?" "just stop."
But after a few seconds, my voice calms down. "just keep moving." "just keep moving." "move." "move." "don't look at the clock." "move."
My dark place is painful. Everything hurts there. It hurts to breathe. Hurts to move. Hurts to bend. Hurts to run. Hurts to think.
"keep moving. keep fighting."
TIME. It's over. I'm out of the dark place.
Back to regularly scheduled programming. Until my next visit.
