It’s not just about how fit you are, it’s about what you can tolerate. If you can’t tolerate it, you can’t sustain it.
So there is the physical adaptation that takes place, but you have to meet that in your head. Because all the physical adaption in the world will make fuck-all difference if you don’t make the mental adjustments.
You want to go faster, right?
Great, but don’t think for a second that means it’s going to hurt less, because guess what? It’s going to hurt more!!
The world is full of great trainers who are in a state of shock at the level of pain they experience in a race, because simply put, they aren’t ready for it.
Hey WTF? That’s not right, I trained so hard, it shouldn’t have hurt that much?
Here’s the truth bomb:
If you can’t put up with it, you can’t keep up with it!
So lovingly, you have to put up or shut up. Paradoxically, the more pain you don’t want to feel, the more pain you will feel.
The messages you send out come back to you in spadefuls friends. What messages are you sending out?
Don't like the discomfort?
Welcome to pain…Everything you don’t like and bemoan in your mind, wind, hills, heat, you will attract more of, because you are busy rolling out a red carpet to what you don’t want.
If you want to sustain it, you’d better be ready to put up with it without the internal belly aching about it. That’s a practise that has to be more consistent than your physical training.
Bring a YES....
Gilesy.
