valley in the peaks

Patrick has been warning us about the Week 8 Doldrums. Been PCPing long enough now for it to be basically routine, nothing special. Nothing really new either. Minutes for jumps instead of counting, Kung-Fu situps, but really now it's just taking what we've already been doing and recombining.
Specifically, the workouts are much more focused: three main body areas, multiple exercises x many reps x several sets. Today was back, triceps (!), and abs. Five sets of 10 pull-ups...are you frakking kidding me? And then a bunch of lawn-mowers, and pull-downs, and THEN all the triceps stuff: elevated dips, ski-jumpers, double-mutha-frakkin-katanas...serious could not lift my arms at the last one.
And THEN the kung-fu sits and crunches...which were by comparison not all that bad. I guess doing 8MA every morning is actually helping. I did the final 100 crunches in one big set; just knocked them out at a steady pace, feeling a nice burn on the last 20 or so but it was manageable.
Ask me two months ago if I thought I could non-chalantly knock out ONE HUNDRED CRUNCHES. Not bloody likely.
So the key for me to avoiding the valley of Week 8: perspective.
I have abs. I mean, they are feeble, and I need to have not eaten much, and just done a bunch of sit-ups, and be in the right lighting and flexing just so, but there is the hint of a six-pack dying to show itself to the world.
I can do 100 crunches in a row. Or 100 squats. Or 100 floor-jumps. Or 100 push-ups.
I can do some (more than one!) pull-ups. I can do a kung-fu sit-up. I can jump rope 1500 times...nah forget that: I can jump rope almost constantly for 16 minutes straight, whilst watching the boring NHK news on TV and thinking about how to cook my egg for breakfast.
So, yeah though I walk through the shadow of the valley of Week 8, I be peakin'.

Then again, I only have 38 days left. 38! That's barely a month! And in that time I am still looking to: chisel out the abs, knock a few more percentage points off of the body fat, do a full set of 10 real pull-ups (no faking the last few), and boil an egg to culinary perfection (new recipe I will try out tonight; letcha know how it goes.)
So much to do, so little time. Got to get crackin'. And I am a bit worried that I am getting kinda fanatical; I really HAVE to jump rope and do 8MA every morning before breakfast. Just doesn't feel right if I don't. I also have to do SOME kind of exercise before I eat lunch, or I feel like an indulgent sloth. Scary...