Subject: RE: Race week; I'm way to relaxed... I wouldn't say I've ever been 'nervous'...
Except for the first one I did. Just wondering if I'd be able to do it, even though I'd done enough "training"
Then I was nervous for my first Olympic length. Just wondering if I'd be able to even do it, though I'd done enough "training"
Not nervous for my first half. Because by then it was no longer "training". It was training. Quotes removed. I was following a plan. While I had some 'doubt' as I was ramping into the training as to whether I could pull off a half in the allotted time, but the time I was halfway through the program, I was setting goals.....7 hours. 6.5 hours. 6 hours! I knew I'd finish (barring unforeseen ). It was just a question of how far I'd take it.
That being said, I'm super anxious before just about any race. The only exception was one this spring that I kept thinking was "a few weeks from now". I kept thinking that right up until the email from the race director came..."Schedule for this weekend's race". At that point, I became a little anxious, but not worried as I knew I was putting in the fitness on a regular basis to pull it off with decent aplomb.
I get excited about all this. I think I have the same feelings about a race as I did "vacation" as a kid. I have trouble sleeping the night before. I want to pack a couple days ahead. I have this vision in my mind of all the fun things I'd like to see happen. I'm a bit like Clark Griswold on vacation now with my kids, and I suppose I'm a bit that way about racing. I know that's maybe not very flattering, but I can't help it.
I was just thinking about 10 minutes ago before I logged on, how I hope I can communicate my enjoyment of all this to my kids and encourage them to go after something they want...and to not wait. I wish I hadn't started this when I was 40+. Not because I'd be "better" or have "gone faster"....but because I would have had many other years of having done it and enjoyed it by now.
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