Today's workout was Fran. For my non crossfitting friends let me explain what that is: thrusters and pullups, 21-15-9 (reps of each).  A good time to complete this workout is about 5-7 minutes. It took me 20 minutes today. I was about to give up at the first set, when I got to 11 thrusters I thought to myself "Instead of 21-15-9 just do 11-11-9." I put the bar down. I saw how much time had passed. I made excuses to myself for the longer time: I'm just getting back in the swing of things, the bar is 45lbs, the bands aiding my pullups were not strong enough (a green & blue band). Then I said no, you are going to do this if it takes an hour without cheating. Later I looked at my previous Fran times. All were under 9 minutes. It is true I usually did 15lbs or 35 at most so 45 was challenging. I needed another resistance band for my pullups. I cheated myself and skimped on the set of 21. NOT TODAY. Today was about completing something I started. The only competition was with myself and that seems to be the hardest contest yet.  I say all of this to say DONT GIVE UP. Just keep moving. If you don't believe in yourself, who will?