Finalizing Your Race Day Plan

Um, so like we've been talking about, um, you know, this, um, presentation and things we're talking about today are really going to be building off of everything that you've already been doing this year.

So it's time to review.

Um, the very first thing that we want to think about when we think about creating our plan for race day is to review.

so first you want to review the course and the course may have changed like kim just alluded to with wild goose and i'm i'm fairly sure that rate the the location of the course changed um sometime this year so maybe the people who signed up earlier thought the course was going to look different right so take a look at the course all the times um that there have to be little changes, you know, hiccups happen all the time.

And really looking at the course, doing like all those sorts of 3D interactive maps, reading the racer manual and the course description provided by the race director, all of those things.

Yes.

And so that's not just to be super familiar with the course, which is an important piece of a lot of what we're going to talk about today, but it's knowing the rules.

I mean, I can remember a time not too long ago where a friend had asked me to pace for a race and then called me about 36 hours before the race to tell me they just read the rules and there are no pacers.

So you don't want to be in a situation like that.

You want to know your rules.

Is there required gear? Is there required gear for your pacers? Those sorts of things.

How many pacers can you have? How many cars can you have? That information is usually available at least a few weeks out from your race, if not earlier.

You can always go and read things from years prior to get, you know, there typically aren't huge changes year to year, or you can get the gist of things and then learn the changes when your new race manual comes out, because some races do kind of put them out a little bit later.

But yes, please review that, know the rules.

We've talked before about wanting to control the controllables, have as few surprises as possible, and familiarizing yourself with the rules will help with that.

want to go back and you wanted to take a look at any of the logs that you've been keeping you know anything um if you've been keeping those logs around trying out different uh distress tolerance skills on your runs different mental skills the ones that have worked the ones that haven't and do you have a sense of what those are um if you haven't yet narrow it down, review those things and try to see which resonate with you, which you remember being most effective and pick the two or three that you're going to use.

We're reviewing and we're finalizing.

You want to review the fears like we talked about last time, that kind of to-do list of we turn our fears into action items are there any fears that are still um you're kind of protecting yourself a bit you're kind of avoiding right maybe you're really afraid of running in the night and you still haven't um given yourself the chance to practice that so take a look at those fears and ask yourself are there any controllables in here, are there anything that I can practice, anything that I can expose myself to to build up a little tolerance around or reduce my fear? This is the time when you're really wanting to be focused on these things.

It's time for review, not introducing new things.

You know, I think You can introduce some, I mean, like certainly nobody panic if you haven't done anything yet, but for those who have tried a couple of things, like this is a great time to, you don't have to worry about like adding more to the toolkit.

It's about practicing over and over again and really sharpening those tools, those couple tools that you find the most useful.