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Jen sits down quicker than gravity alone would have brought her down. Collapsed in a semi cross legged sitting situation she breathes heavily. “Up up”, I repeat a few times offering a helping hand bringing her up to her feet. “In through your nose, deep breaths, twenty seconds to go,” more advice offered to my laboring wife. Repeat quarters with about 45sec rest. Off she goes again, rounding, working back stretch, another curve and then down the last 100meters, face etched in determination. The face says it all, gone from the calm of the first few reps slowly turning towards grimace of self direction and desire. The face shows what she is doing, what we are all doing. Try as you might to hide the effort, you can't run the end of a race or hard workout with a decent poker face.