![]() For the first part of the race, run in the green zone or at an easy effort where you can't hear your breathing and it feels effortless. The idea is to keep your energy consumption below the red line (hard effort or threshold) until the last act. If you run by the numbers (pace) and into a headwind, you will expend a lot more energy at your normal pace and risk a crash and burn performance. Break the race into three equal parts and run by your effort (feel) rather than your watch. Play the game and think about ways it could be worse.perhaps a thunderstorm, or hail, or how about having a wind so strong you see a crabby woman riding a bike with a little dog flying through the air! Once you get into it, the day's challenges will seem like gifts. "It can always be worse" are words that have helped me through miles of ankle-deep muddy trails in the Antarctica Marathon and a 50-mile jungle trek with red biting ant and leeches in the jungles of Borneo. Wind), use a mindful mantra to keep things in perspective and avoid getting sucked into a negativity loop. If you use your energy to fight the wind, you burn through mental and physical energy at a rate so fast you can end up in the bite-me zone by mile 12.
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