with your eyes closed," says Robert Burton, a runner and psychiatry professor. Training your brain to help you run better isn't difficult, it just takes a little practice. So to help you, we've come up with 10 mental strategies for solving the most common
. I enjoy passing people. I enjoy beating someone. I enjoy the strategy of setting someone up. I enjoy deciding on the precise moment when I will surge past. I enjoy pushing myself until I know that they will not pass me back.Maybe the race number
« Three weeks to goThe hard work is now behind you. You’ve finished the final long run and you should be easing back on the intensity of the mid-week runs. Rest truly replaces training as the most important element of your preparations, and race
-tuning speed with rest. The strategy works because if you sustain a high training volume for too long, you'll fatigue. But if you reduce volume for an extended period of time, your fitness will begin to erode. Thus, to continuously race well, you must return
all the difference."To run your best in your next race, consider the following questions, and then put the answers towards a new and improved pacing strategy.Q. What is the secret to successful pacing?Pacing isn't something most of us are born knowing
If transition is triathlon's fourth discipline, nutrition should be the fifth. Making fuelling mistakes could mean your race ends in disaster. And the longer the event, the more critical your food and drink strategy becomes. But it's not easy
Return to one course over the summer, and you'll have a golden opportunity to focus on your pacing and perfect your race strategy. Lessons learnt in these shorter races will give you a head start if you want to do well over longer distances
when you're racing. Don't follow them, or get distracted, keep the focus on yourself.Match your race strategy to your confidence levels at the time (and those might change depending on fatigue, injury or training). Don't feel you have to get involved
strategies from previous races and eventually got used to the products and the benefits of staying hydrated during her run. Weeks 14 - 15Christina says: I ran the Maidenhead Easter 10 in 64.15, and came sixth lady. The start caught me out a bit – I was having
