Racing is a feeling. If you want to ride the lightning, you have to learn how to burn. No numbers and no data can direct you to that feeling. Data can measure it, but it can never create it.
If you want real progress, eventually you have to be willing to ride the lightning. That's a risk and there’s no way around it. There has to be the trust to know that you can go beyond what seems rational and take yourself into the red zone at least for periods.
Unless you expose yourself to that in a race, you are playing a safety card that won’t win races.
There is a need to learn to feel your way around what is sustainable, what can be put up with for periods of time and what is straight out suicide. Here’s the thing; if you haven’t ridden the lightning in some races, doubt will always fill the risk with fear and, like everything, the best therapy for that is exposure.
We often put unconscious brakes on our performances, disembodied, trying to think our way around it when the only true way to deal with the lightning is to stay right with it, feeling it, tasting it, embodying it and responding.
Overanalyse is doubt masquerading as knowledge.
Truth is, when you are riding the lightning, you are going to need your will, your heart, your gut, and your courage.
You can’t take fear n doubt in there!
Teach your neural pathways, give in to your heart and instincts, find your trust.
You have to learn how, like a blind man learns to read braille:
Feel your way around it!
Gilesy
