Need your best "push through the 90 degree heat, tired muscles, everyone around me is walking but I am running sub-8's" race mantra

15-18 hour training weeks - check
Ability to run 25 sec/min faster than race pace target on a long tempo run and still feel great at end in the upper 80’s - check
“over mile” bike rides and runs - check
Long bricks, race pace bricks - check
Nutrition plan devised and tested - check
Excited to actually race - check

But I need some good mantras for the run. It’s going to be crazy hot on Sunday and I need some fun things to focus on and ways to prepare mentally to not be nervous, not “give up against myself even though my body is totally capable” and ignore all of the “walking zombies” and my own tired/hot body on the course on my last loop…

Also plan to race without my HRM and would love thoughts on RPE to follow for bike so I stay in control and don’t pay for it on the run as that is one of my strengths - keep in mind that I am capable of throwing down a run that could top my age group (top 3-5 on the bike), but my best swim ever would still only be in the top 3rd of my age group, so I have to throw it down to some extent on the bike and run to hit my goals and don’t worry I’ve trained with that in mind…

Go faster, people are watching.
Failing will feel worse than this.
It’s suppose to hurt!
PS TriMILF…haha great username haha
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If I die, I die. If I die,I die. If I die…

Morph

“There is beer at the finish!”
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The faster i run the quicker i’m done.

paraphase from the movie Gattaca - Don’t save anyting for the run…

as for RPE - if you don’t kown it now then no one’s gonna be able to explain it to you. Think back on your hardest bike rides of similar duration. It should only be a little easier than that. Just a little.

good luck

This is great stuff - thanks for playing along! As for RPE - let me clarify - I’m completely versed on it and know my own well - just wondering if I am usually at a 6-7 on my race pace tempo rides (avg about 21-21.5 MPH for the 1.5 hr portion done at tempo - flat course and remember I’m a girl) if I should make sure I stay at that or below for the race or if it’s okay to let the excitement take over a bit and maybe allow myself to get to an 8 every once in a while…

Sometimes when I’m running in extreme heat, my brain starts saying “if you dont stop, you’ll collapse and die”

My response: I’d like to see that happen.

Push as if your trying to collapse and kill yourself and A) you wont and B) you’ll go faster

See any and all quotes by Steve Prefontaine.

My road id, hanging around my neck, says

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift - Pre

This one gets me through, but maybe it has to do with underlying issues I may or may not have - “Don’t be a py, Don’t be a py” in time with your run cadence of course. I like “If I die I die” and the previous post about trying to run yourself to death. I dig the intensity.

Zach

Sounds to me like you are worried about trusting your body.

If you plan to race by RPE you better have a check-mark on that for training/racing…

…otherwise I’d stick with “the ticker”.

I like it!

I always like the quote from the guy that holds the record for the Kessel Run: “She’ll hold together. Hear me baby? Hold together!”

As miserable as I am, I bet I look friggin’ awesome
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All I am thinking is with a user name like trimif & you being a girl, I really want to see a profile picture.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but here are some of my favorite training/racing quotes:

If you’re not going to win, make the guy ahead of you break the record.

Running won’t kill you, you’ll pass out first.

I do today what you won’t so I can do tomorrow what you can’t.

The will to win means nothing if you haven’t the will to prepare.

Some people dream of success…while others wake up and work hard at it.

This is great stuff - thanks for playing along! As for RPE - let me clarify - I’m completely versed on it and know my own well - just wondering if I am usually at a 6-7 on my race pace tempo rides (avg about 21-21.5 MPH for the 1.5 hr portion done at tempo - flat course and remember I’m a girl) if I should make sure I stay at that or below for the race or if it’s okay to let the excitement take over a bit and maybe allow myself to get to an 8 every once in a while…

for me, i say let a little excitement and competition push you a little harder. I’ve always found i could dig deeper on a group ride than a solo ride. one of my mistakes in triathlon (not coming from a competitive sport background) was that for years i finished races saying ‘i could have gone faster, i could have pushed harder’ or ‘man, i’ve done faster training rides than that’. the year i didn’t do that i took third in my age group (gulf coast HIM) I’d rather i would have sucked the last mile and then i would have learned a lot more. but that’s just me. oh, and if you believe the ‘conventional wisdom’ women are able to suffer more than men.

On your death bed you won’t be wishing you quit more

Andrew
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I like these :slight_smile:
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When in doubt do what Leonidas would do. Click on this link and replace “Spartans” with “Trimilf” - job done.

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/movies1/300/glory.wav

my first year at IMLP i had a line that came into my head that i couldn’t get out:

pickem up and putem down that’s the way you get to town… repeat several hundred times.

my second year something similiar came into my head:

you gotta put one foot in front of the other… gotta put one foot in front of the other…(this one got annoying and i wanted to finish faster because of that!)