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Race Reports and Idle Thoughts
You are probably not locked in a titanic psychological struggle to be the best in the world, but you may nonetheless feel irrational guilt over the next few days that you are not training hard enough / you are eating too much / you are not as fast as Steve Ovett. Try to fight this urge and allow yourself to relax.
Close your eyes and try to select a happy place and time. The detail is crucial though – it has to be more than, “Oh yeah, I really liked it at my birthday party last week.” Conjur up the sights, sounds and smells in your mind. The more detail, the more effective this will be at transporting you from your current situation into that happy place.
At the Double Brutal, I was aerobically fit enough to complete the race, but my body let me down. I was not biomechanically fit enough to reach the finish line. As I plan the next great adventure, I know that I have to address this issue, and that’s how I ended up talking to Alice Frewin of Sano Physiotherapy in Morley, with a notebook in my hand, reading out a laundry list of physical problems.
I have a very distinct memory of the Rubicon Triathlon in 2015. My abiding memory is not the excitement of the river swim, nor is it the fantastic support from the Wakefield Tri Club feed station. It’s not even the soupy paddling pool at the finish line. No, my overriding memory of that race is that I seemed to be the only person doing the event that wasn’t wearing compression sleeves on my calves.
