Does the "I could have pushed harder" feeling ever go away?

Hatehundred meters wrote:

Not in the 800. In my best races, I'm so locked up with 50 to go that nothing could make me run faster.

I Hate you.

*&HUasdoihw4 wrote:

The point of running, compared to other sports, is that it expands your limits. Once you have done X, the next time you want to do Y. Everyone feels this from the slowest to the fastest.

This is not exclusive to running. You think a running back doesn't want to throw more yards or TDs next game? You think a running back doesn't want to run more yards next time? And so on.

800 On Pure Hate wrote:

*&HUasdoihw4 wrote:

The point of running, compared to other sports, is that it expands your limits. Once you have done X, the next time you want to do Y. Everyone feels this from the slowest to the fastest.

This is not exclusive to running. You think a running back doesn't want to throw more yards or TDs next game? You think a running back doesn't want to run more yards next time? And so on.

Those examples are dependent on a team. Running is just you unless you are a relay runner.

measured efforts wrote:

A lot of it has to do with measuring your effort perfectly. Many times the races where you push harder are actually not great races because you may overdo it early on and stagger home. It feels much harder that way

To a certain extent the best races are done at less than 100% because the body just happens to be perfectly set up on that day.

I agree. A few of my PR races I felt great afterwards, like I could go out and do it again! Not the case with some of my slower races though.

electron1661 wrote:

measured efforts wrote:

A lot of it has to do with measuring your effort perfectly. Many times the races where you push harder are actually not great races because you may overdo it early on and stagger home. It feels much harder that way

To a certain extent the best races are done at less than 100% because the body just happens to be perfectly set up on that day.

I agree. A few of my PR races I felt great afterwards, like I could go out and do it again! Not the case with some of my slower races though.

Second this.

Id add, My favorite feeling is the perfect race where you are on the edge (but measured and executed perfectly.) Pushing it hard but not too hard and timed just right so that finish line feels hard, triumphant and measured. Doesn't happen so often.

Reality Nazi wrote:

Brandon, run on Pure Hate. You won't that feeling any more.

Pure hate won't work past 1600.

Aldo.

Figuring out the mental aspect wrote:

As a decent high school dude (17:30), I always feel like I'm giving 110% during my races, but by the time I'm cooling down I feel like I should have pushed harder or gone faster. Does this feeling go away once athletes get to a certain point or race a certain distance at a high enough level?

Brandon

If you are lucky there will be a few, a very few, races in which you will be able to look upon, years from now, and say I gave everything I could give. There is almost nothing in the world more precious than this feeling. Treasure it if/when it happens.

It does if you run on Pure Hate