Don't worry about places. Don't pick random NUMBERS for results. Don't say I want a TOP 5. That is insane. If you want to pick numbers go buy a lottery ticket. Top 5…Don't think silly crap like that.
Just race your brains out. Places don't mean a thing. Try and race an honest race.......where you get a good start.... race patient... then push yourself to the limit. Race for the PLACE right in front of you. That is the only place you have control of. Race to not get caught by the racer behind.
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“Some think elite athletes have an easy time of it,” Nothing could be further from the truth. And as athletes improve — getting faster and beating their own records — “it never gets any easier, you hurt just as much.”
But, he added, “Knowing how to accept that allows people to improve their performance.”
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Racing without pain is not racing
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"You've got to love to suffer as much as you love the feeling of having done it."
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"The iron ore feels itself needlessly tortured as it passes through the furnace. The tempered blade looks back and knows better."
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"Always remember that every other good rider is hurting just as much – you are not the exception. Pain is normal and it is necessary. Anyone who does not hurt is not going as fast as he can. Pain is what guarantees success. So don’t think about pain as a negative thing, think about it as proof you are riding the race correctly.
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You can quit and they don't care. But you will always know
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"Your pain is not special."
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"It always hurts when you go as hard as you can."
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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong
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"When you think you are done, you're only 40 percent into what your body is capable of doing." David Goggins
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"It hurts to a point and then it doesn't get any worse." Ann Trason
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"Yes, I felt pain. By the 1500-meter mark, my body was wrapped in barbed wire. But if I was hurting, my opponents must have been hurting more. I welcomed the pain.
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"Distance runners are experts in pain, discomfort and fear. You're not coming away feeling good. It's a matter of how much pain you can deal with on those days. It's not strategy. It's just a callusing of the mind and body to deal with discomfort. That's the nature of their game. Taking pain." Mark Wetmore
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"You just peg your heart rate at 180 beats per minute for 2 hours, and suffer". He shrugged his shoulders and said, "you have to like pain to race."
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Prove you're tough
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"We are privileged to live another day in this magnificent world. Today you will be tested."
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"If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough."
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"It never gets easier, you just go faster." Greg LeMond
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Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men.
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"When the guy says go, you start to suffer—or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt."
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"If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great."
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Ultimately, when my battle with my inner demon becomes one of symbolic
life and death, I get by with this affirmation – no matter what happens, I will not actually die. All but dead, as Holmes suggests, but no one will be dying on the erg today. That seems sensational, but it’s that simple. Once you have accepted that, you might as well get to work.
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The pain finally began to creep into my body. Instead of “ignoring the pain,” like we’ve been stupidly taught by society, I embraced it. Pain’s a secondary emotion, and like all emotions, it’s an interpretation. Pain connects me to parts of my body-soul only found through punishing endurance. How in the hell will I ever know how fast I can go if I don’t explore the pain puncturing my lungs? Devils danced on my tongue. Spit hung like poison. You can’t kill yourself this way. Pain’s a fabrication. A damn lie.
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