When Your Best Isn't Skillful Enough

As children nosotros are taught that if nosotros dream it, nosotros tin create it.  Give it your all, create your best, together with y'all volition succeed.

Racing teaches us that this, at to the lowest degree a practiced component subdivision of the time, is absolutely non true.  There volition move many days where your best only volition non cutting it.  The reasons together with excuses are myriad, but to race is to larn to fail.  Sometimes spectacularly.  Sometimes painfully.  It is non an slow or comfortable means to live, but for those who would assay the victor's laurels, it is the alone way.

Many years agone an former racer told me non to move inward a hurry to acquire my offset win.  When I pressed him on his disputation he replied, "Because in ane trial y'all win, zero else volition do.".  He was right.  As presently equally all the move pays off amongst the highest reward, that is the alone goal.  Not a "good showing" or "respectable" complete or novel personal best, these acquire similar a slap inward the face.  It is the win that matters, together with y'all get down to inquire yourself just what y'all are willing to create to acquire it.

How much am I willing to risk, to spend, to practice, to force myself?  How much slumber am I willing to lose going over together with over what needs to move done?

These are the questions that forcefulness us to know ourselves intimately, because the game of racing is largely a mental one.  Elaborate plans together with preparations convey to move made good inward advance, together with therefore chucked out the window the millisecond it becomes obvious they volition non work.

Believe amongst the unwavering organized religious belief of a fanatical adherent that y'all volition move the best on whatever given race solar daytime or y'all are beaten earlier the thing fifty-fifty starts.  Go fast plenty to exit dubiety behind.

And when, equally she is ofttimes wont to do, our savage mistress decides to dole out the bitter, deadening acting poisonous substance of defeat rather than the sweetness nectar of victory, what are nosotros to do?  We tin quit.  Or notice out what nosotros are actually made of.

Hold on guys, I intend I convey to pee!

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