Day of physical rest...

I was thinking that I would go and work out today, that changed shortly after getting out of bed though. My knee was still bothering me some, and I didn't want to push it too hard...I'll save that for the big race! So today will be spent resting my legs, and refocusing my mental side of all of this training. In high school when I was on our cross country team our coach used to tell us all the time that running was, "80% mental, and only 20% physical." Being that I grew up with that mentality, and really learning what that meant, I am a huge supporter of that idea. Therefore, I am going to pay attention to the mental side of running today. Set aside some time to "run the race in my head, so when comes time to actually run it, I'm mentally prepared for it." This time it will be slightly different though because I don't know the course.

Back in high school every week we had a race we would mentally prepare for it the day before by laying down and going from toe to head relaxing every part of our body. Then we would imagine that we are at the start line, the gun goes off and we start the race, and are running with a pack of our teammates, or with a person who we plan to beat in the actual race. We would know the course already so we would be able to picture the turns in our head, or the hill that we are coming up to, etc. This time though, I only know the start and the finish line, and really that's about it. Yes, there is a map online, (check it out here or here!) but I really don't know the terrain very well, so it doesn't help all that much. Anyway, my next planned day to train will be Monday, so until next time...

Over and out!

Lo!