Make Your Raceday a Success!

We're in prime racing season. All the training, discipline and hard work you've endured this summer is ready to be put to the test. It doesn't matter if you're running a marathon, half marathon 5K or 10K, we ALL want to do our best on race day. After all, the humidity this summer's been as oppressive as it has been in years! We want to see great results from all those training miles and sweat!

I asked my brother once, before I ran my first marathon, what I could do in the last days leading up to my race. His response was blunt, but overflowing with wisdom! It was "don't do anything dumb!"

Those of us who are older will remember Jim Mc Kay's intro before ABC's Wide World of Sports. In it he described that we'd experience "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" as we watched his show. Well, despite all our training, sometimes we are our own worst enemy and "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" by "doing something dumb!'

Check out the article by following this link. It'll show you the simple things to AVOID in order to make YOUR race day a memorable one!