Hi gang, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Run Selfie Repeat Podcast.

Where we talk about life with the side of running, I am your host, Kelly Roberts.

And today, this is a question that got posed on my Instagram.

I did a little like AMA, ask me anything, and someone wrote, okay, how do you get over

the desperate feeling during a race?

I always feel like I can't keep the pace up and we'll never PR again.

And I think this is a really great question because this doesn't just pertain to racing, right?

Like, this is just fear in self-doubt and it's something that like we can absolutely

break down and ironically, yesterday in our spring half marathon training experience,

this is like just the week that we're on.

The way that my training works is like, I do someone on one coaching,

but I find it a lot more helpful to do group sessions where you're always learning together,

so that every week you have a journal with which we break down different mental tools.

So this week was a big week, so it was like fear in self-doubt, accurate self-talk.

What else was there?

Accurate self-talk, fear in self-doubt.

We talked about visualization, making the decision not to suffer,

worst-case scenarios, and mantras.

Oh my god, we had so many things to discuss this week.

And they're all related, which is why there are so many things in this particular week,

but like because it's fresh on my mind and I was just talking about it,

I thought this was like a perfect time to get into this because this is the hardest part

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