Benchmark: It's a love/hate relationship

Okay, it’s time to start psyching myself up. Tomorrow is Bootcamp’s first session of the month, and that means it’s Benchmark Day. I’m heading in for the 6 am session, which means the alarm will go off at 4:40 am, I’ll spritely jump out of bed, shower, put on my comfy pants and my oh so grey Bootcamp shirt, scoff a slice of toast, and head in to North Adelaide, nervously shitting myself the entire drive.

Everyone will do two tests, the first one involving running two laps (200 m each), meeting their partner for them to witness and scruitinise the form of a set of push-ups, grunts and sit-ups, and repeating the whole thing again two more times. Benchmark 1 kills me – I suck just at doing the grunts and sit-ups quickly! Benchmark 2 is less stressful, but still hard work, 8 laps of the 200 m circuit.

The goal is to make an improvement on the last Benchmark results, even if it’s just a few seconds! I’ve just got to remind myself to breath and don’t hold back, there’s no point saving yourself for the last lap, when you probably could have sprinted the last three!!!