Whether it’s school, sport, work, or just general family and scheduling chaos; life can sometimes seem overwhelming and intimidating. Everywhere we look, there is messaging that we should all be perfect at everything we take on.
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As a mental performance consultant, the number one question I get asked is “How can I cope better with the stress I feel before a race?”. There are many different iterations of how this question is asked, but it all comes down to the same concept: an athlete feels like the amount of stress they are experiencing is “too much” and in some way they have noticed that it is inhibiting their best performance.
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“Challenge is 90% mental, and the other 10% is all in your head” (Ultra runner Ray Zahab, 2004ish). Sitting in the back of a local cafe, in the audience of Ray’s (my neighbourhood’s hero) presentation on his latest adventure racing exhibitions, this quote stuck in my heart as both intriguing and puzzling.
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