Definition of Racing
Experience From -
Coach Weber ,
Here are some interesting thoughts about running and racing listed in a Running Logbook put together by the great runner and coach, Koos Sutherland:
My definition of 'racing' is 'running to total exhaustion'. It is how Tim Noakes uses the term: p.189 of the Lore of Running: "By *racing* I mean running to total exhaustion."
- A runner who wants to race has to race. It's both a psychological urge and a physical necessity.
- There's no better way to get in speed work than running a race. You never really reach the pain barrier, or whatever you call it, in any other way than running the race and hurting that way.
- Being at the absolute peak is just one step from losing it all.
- Too many races can add up to bad racing in the long run. And, a bad race can be a good early warning of trouble, begging to be corrected before it multiplies.
- Race seldom, but regularly and well.
- Race within trained capacity.
- Don't fight nature. Don't race when tired or sore. If you're that way before the start, think what the hard kilometers are going to do later.
- When you're racing hard, you can't train hard.
- There's no substitute for racing as a sharpener.
- Long runs are an important step to racing goals.
- Too much of something leads to too much of nothing.
- Frank Shorter once said: " You don't run a 2:10 marathon just by 'secrets'.
- Top results are only reached through pain. An Olympic Gold Medal is rarely won through talent alone.
- The next time you run out of GAS, fill up your tank with rest.