Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

All right, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I am your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a solo episode for you.

Today's solo episode is a topic that I have been meaning to do an episode

on for quite some time, and it is the mental aspect of racing. You can probably extend that

to the mental approach to training as well, or even the mental approach to life, because I do

think there's going to be some crossovers here

that can be valuable in terms of how you actually think about doing anything you're doing

or at least how you're processing it in the moment versus just kind of coasting through,

so to speak. So generally, I think it's maybe will be a little more

applicable for longer endurance events like marathon, ultra marathon type distances, as I would

describe the mental challenge for events like that in a compartment where you're dealing

with maybe a more subtle, long-lasting discomfort,

where you've got plenty of time and focus to really concentrate on what you did or did not do,

whereas on the shorter endurance vents like 5Ks and 10Ks, although you're definitely thinking

about things in those type of events, They tend to be a lot faster acting

and you just don't really have too much time to worry about a mistake you made at mile two

until after the race sometimes. So I find just the dichotomy between those two types of events

to be interesting where the shorter stuff is going to be a little more of a sharp, acute pain that you have to be able to deal with versus a duller,

longer lasting pain that you have a lot of time to have to deal with.

Neither is necessarily easy or harder, in my opinion, to manage.

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