Marathon Mental Preparation

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.

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