I owe a lot to Dave Rastovich. I have never met Dave and he's never met me. In fact most of what I know about Dave comes from the one surfing DVD I own. And to be precise it was Dave's Dad who inspired an idea - an idea that in part led to this blog.
Picture this, you've been riding for three hours and you're tired, you can feel the burn creeping into your legs, a sure sign that your body is producing more lactate than it can metabolise. You know that if you carry on at this pace you're not going to make it. And you begin to wonder, how on earth to the professionals do it? Is their perception of fatigue the same as yours or are they immune to feeling the burn.
I just completed my very first Cape Argus Cycle Tour, with a wind resisted time of 5 hours and 17 minutes. For the most part I felt really strong during the race, but there were times when all I could think of was "when will this end". I have to wonder at what point my brain was correct when it told my legs, "hey slow down". It is incredibly difficult to know how far to push yourself. Athletes who have down years of endurance training seem to develop an accurate sense of how far they can go.
... our memories guide what we expect to see, what we expect to see guides what we pay attention to, and what we pay attention to determines what goes into our working memory, and we retain most those things that have meaning or we understand best (that which is already in our memory banks). In this post I'd like to explore the relationship between memory, perception and positive thinking.
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