In a race, performance doesn’t express your goals—it expresses your habits. Your day-to-day training environment is like your bathroom: if you don’t keep it clean, it grows mould and starts to stink.
Don’t let your training get mouldy. You need to bring conscious discipline to your habits, not just your body…Check your defaults:
• Are you meeting the specifics?
• Are you engaged with the truth of the present moment?
• Are you open to what’s coming at you, or are you stuck choosing goods and bads, rights and wrongs, should's and shouldn’ts?
Is your environment fresh, with a clean slate and session variance? Or is it the same old mouldy grind?
Are you meeting your sessions with invitation or dread?
Because when that race unfolds, you’ve got to keep sending out invites to the next moment—the ground right in front of your feet—and not move an inch from it.
Are you doing that in training? Are you packing acceptance bullets in training, or are you packing the shits? Spoiler alert: the race doesn’t give two fucks about you packing the shits on race day. So, again—is it specific? Is it realistic?
Coach advice: Watch your habits, especially the stealthy mental habits that creep in and file themselves in your brain as “not important.”
Observing those sneaky patterns in training is critical. The race will come at you from every direction—not just the ones you approve of. Are you prepared for that?
Expect the best by preparing for the worst.
Gilesy