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The non-stop nature of the race also causes uncertainty. You cannot take a timeout to recollet yourself.
Distance racs are easily "graded" performances.
Distance races produce one "winner" and many, many "loosers"
Successful racing means courting the pain.
Being more oriented to thoughts than to people, the runner is at home when he is inwardly focussed. The runner is a stoic.
When [Bud Winters] runners wanted to run their fastest, he told them to run at nine-tenth speed.
When you are standing at the top of a ninety-meter ramp preparing for a ski jump, that IS cause for some natural worry, and that is when you need to stay relaxed.
Watch other runners who run very relaxed and imitate them. The power of the visual image is strong.
I've coached many distance runners. You begin to see similarities. Most runners are studious, their grade point average among the highest of any group's in school. They tend to be conscentious and law-abiding. They're one of the few groups you can let alone to get some work done and have some assurance it will get done. Socially, many runners are akward. Most saturday nights they are without a date. They can be irritatingly uncommunicative. You drag things out of them. Runners are a taciturn lot, the kind who need to be forced to have fun. They can be Spartan to the point of self-injury. A coach must watch them like a hawk because they can go days and weeks before complaining of a pain.
Runners can be surprisingly underconfident. Even the elite. David Moorcroft jolted the running world in the summer of '82 when he blew away the 5,000 meter world record by six seconds. He is a refreshingly candid sort, and his remarks about runners ring true. "By nature, I'm not the most confident of people. Actually, I think a lot of athletes exude some false self-confidence which hides a little of their insecurity." But good racing requires confidence, risk-taking, spontaneity, competitiveness, coolness under pressure, and aggression. In these areas many runners struggle against their nature.



Taken from: The Competitive Edge - Mental Preparation for Distance Running, by Richard Elliot, ISBM 978-1-4196-8869-0