Cool, Calm & Confident

10/13/11

Sometimes there is more to the look than meets the eye. That the confidence on the outside can be a reflection of how the race will be run or a preview of how the challenge will be met. The distance must be covered but how is up to the runner. Stepping to the start line, gun held over head of an official ready to fire killing the motionless self with a burst of inertia and with that birth of motion there can also be the birth of a managed plan. Run the race with your head for the first two thirds, says Coach Daniels, and your heart the last third. When you toe that line let your mind tell your body to relax, the real work doesn’t need to be painful until the last third. Of course, the mind continues, I can handle the first two-thirds! The first two-thirds isn’t painful, or at least shouldn’t be if you follow proper pacing, but the last third is so very painful, and how much pain you can take should be left up to the blessed heart.