The
hardest thing about training for a marathon is preparing yourself
mentally. This is especially so for race day.
So
how do you prepare yourself?
Well,
you can put your mental preparation for race day on autopilot by
following
this
little-known tip:
You
should aim to make your longer Sunday training sessions to simulate
your race as exactly as possible.
By
this, you should pretend that your longer training session is your
actual marathon race. That means you should have a large carbohydrate
meal the night before your marathon and have an early night.
You
should mentally prepare the night before and walk yourself through the
exact steps you are going to take the next morning.
You
should get up early on the morning of your longer training session
and have the exact meal and preparation you would do for the actual
race day. Do everything exactly as you would for your race day, even
pretending to attach your numbers to your singlet before you head out
the door.
Mentally
rehearsing like this will decrease your nerves on the actual race day
because you are
following
the exact steps in your training. When it comes to race day
then you will know exactly what you are meant to do because you have
simulated it so many times during your preparation.
You
can find more tips on how to prepare for your longer training sessions
in order
to
get the most out of your training by clicking on the following link:
Marathon
Bible
"If
one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours." -- Henry David Thoreau
That is so true. If you truly desire to run a marathon then I believe
it is inevitable. If you can visualize it in your mind then I have no
doubt that you will run a marathon if you follow a training system that
works.