Just wrapped up a solid indoor season and am getting ready to start outdoors. One thing I've struggled with pretty bad is pre race anxiety. I've done all the meditation and journaling, but something I realized that a lot of my teammates do that I have never done, is a sort of pre race ritual. I know they are very different from person to person, but I'm curious to see what your guys's pre race rituals are.
What is your pre-race routine/ritual?
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I make a mental list of the top 10 attractive women at the meet. It helps keep my mind busy.
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Just wrapped up a solid indoor season and am getting ready to start outdoors. One thing I've struggled with pretty bad is pre race anxiety. I've done all the meditation and journaling, but something I realized that a lot of my teammates do that I have never done, is a sort of pre race ritual. I know they are very different from person to person, but I'm curious to see what your guys's pre race rituals are .
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I do what some of the elites did in the 80s: get hammered the night before. Many would agree, some of my best races were after a night of partying into the early hours of the morning. What the science is behind it or if there is science to it Idk. Maybe extra carbs?? but I never had the same experience by not getting drunk the night before but instead drinking a lot of juice and eating heavy on the carbs. But drinking the night before works for me. I ain't no 20 year old college kid either. I am 31.
During the last week of a standard 4 month block of training before a big race, it has looked like this for the last 5 years:
Monday: AM 6 miles PM 2 miles with strides
Tuesday: AM 8 miles PM off
Wednesday: AM 5 miles PM 1 mile with strides (less strides than on Monday)
Thursday: AM off PM off
Friday: AM 2 miles PM off
Saturday: Race Day
Friday PM is when I get hammered. I don't really go out anymore bar hopping, going club to club, walking the streets between venues and all that. Its more of kind of hanging out with friends at one of our homes and drink and get sloshed while playing games, watching movies, stuff that doesn't require a lot of physical activity. In my youth, it used to be bar hopping and clubbing until 3 AM, wake up at 6 A.M. still halfway drunk, and be racing by 8 AM. I think it may have to do with the pain-reducing and calming effects of alcohol why I race so wel the next day.
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it's not meditation in general, it's getting chill right before you go where you are mellow in the blocks and loose. that's actually the opposite of my younger adrenalized self. but adrenaline was also tension.
i thought it was important to have a sort of rhythm on timing. like i show up x minutes before the race and have a rough plan how to spend that time. don't check in too early and stand around and think about stuff. don't show up too late and be panicked to find the officials and get through the process.
music is good not just as hype but also just to kind of drown out your own monologue.
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