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<\/p>\nLess than 48 hours to raceday\u2026.and now it\u2019s in your face!<\/p>\n
All the hard work done- only the final remains- treat it as another Sunday run as Savio says- yes that\u2019s true, because all those Sunday runs have taught us many things and now we need to apply them all the heat, the hills, the endurance- and if something fails then we need to innovate- because \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n
\u201d FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!\u201d<\/p>\n
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The mind constantly wanders when you\u2019re engaged in a repetitive activity for a prolonged period. Many times I have been thinking of other things and I need to snap out of it and say, \u201cwake up!\u201d you\u2019re in race.<\/p>\n
If your mind wanders so will your body. You can wake up and check your form- see if your shoulders are relaxed, if you\u2019re breathing right- from the belly, and most importantly \u2013 am I working as hard as I possibly can?<\/p>\n
In an endurance athlete\u2019s life pain is never far away. Pain is a little more than a conversation between body and your brain. That\u2019s another reason why a fit mind is so important.<\/p>\n
The brain is constantly trying to impose limits on what it thinks it can achieve. We should constantly question it; fight it, which means enduring pain. Successful athletes relish their relationship with pain. Not the mechanical kind, which tells us when something has broken down, but of the emotional pain. Pain is our brain\u2019s way, like a caring parent, of telling us that it doesn\u2019t like how hard it\u2019s working right now! We need to challenge that.<\/p>\n
So come one- it\u2019s up to you to find the motivation to win. This is your only chance- squeeze all the will into the race. The truth is that you CAN do it. What you can never allow yourself\u00a0 to fail because of loss of will. You can feel like you have lost if you don\u2019t reach your target due to an unforeseen situation, but you can\u2019t admit defeat because you failed to give it your best shot! That is a crime- we need to always give each race our best.<\/p>\n
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