Put in the time but do it wisely. Don’t waste your mission.
Performance is not about self-flagellation or abuse. Sport sells you a bill of rights that there is no progress without hard yards.Don't let “hard yards” become a “graveyard”…
Here’s the paradox: In order to be willing to die as it were for the result, you have to leave it to the moment, not the preparation. Preparation is a measure of what you can absorb, not what you can get done.
Then the ability to truly go deep when you need to relies on how attentive you were to your training and how you finessed the suck.
If you ignore what you need to understand in training, your body will not understand the requirement when it’s required. The death of your doubts on race day will require your body's physical depth.
The ability to truly dig, go deep, and be willing to truly go beyond demands the space you bring to the race. In other words:
What you left in the tank, not what you took from it!
Every single session is about intention and attention. A race is slavery if you have exhausted the will to allow it and be with it.
Courage is made of the fire within!
Don’t put your fire out before you get to the start line. On race day, you need your body, your brain, your heart and soul online for the task.
Don’t leave your best in training.
Don’t make training the graveyard of your dreams.
Leave your best for the battle.
Gilesy
