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Have you ever seen an athlete have an amazing race and wonder how they were able to pull it off? Do you ever wish you could get the extra edge that other athletes seem to have on race day? Today we are going to be talking about the main factors that go into having a great race. There are a variety of areas you can improve on when it comes to mastering your race day performance. When you try to get 1% better in each area, it adds up to be a lot!

1. Training For The Event/Distance with specific workouts
2. Anaerobic
3. Aerobic
4. Workouts 20% of the time

5. Paces specific to your VDOT fitness

6. Being selective with your races

7. You can’t expect to race every month and improve forever
8. You need time to train for the races
9. Picking courses that are FAST
10. Picking races during optimal time of year
11. Course spectators? People to run with?

12. Limiting how often you race

13. Building the mental muscle

14. Doing uncomfortable things
15. Sarah Sellers 2018 Boston Marathon: she ran after working nursing shirts. When you train in a tired state, it can help with the rough patches during a race
16. You don’t need to train in perfect conditions or always feel like running
17. Building confidence in workouts by practicing negative splits

18. Don’t let yourself get handicapped by yourself: “I always blow up”, “I am not good at marathons”. You have to practice how you speak to yourself and not go down a negative spital

19. The little things like tapering, fueling and carb loading

20. Carbon plated shoes can make you faster
21. Beats can make you faster
22. Fueling properly will allow you to race to your potential in events over 90 min
23. Hydration is key
24. Make sure you have all the loose ends taken care of!