When preparing for any race, I train both physically AND mentally.

I try to catch myself when I start irrationally panicking about a pain in a joint or muscle (I seriously have a mini melt-down about some sort of imagined knee or hip pain the week before every race, lol), I try to encourage myself to push a little further and I try envision myself running powerfully….

Who care’s what I really look like!?  In my mind I’m AMAZING!