{"id":560,"date":"2015-09-15T12:11:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/?p=560"},"modified":"2015-09-15T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T16:11:02","slug":"pre-race-jitters-i-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/2015\/09\/15\/pre-race-jitters-i-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Race Jitters? I think so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever had pre race jitters 2 full weeks before a race before, but I certainly do this time. Tapering started the jitters. The second guessing of &#8216;did I train enough&#8217;, &#8216;am I ready&#8217;, and &#8216;can I finish this&#8217; are all eating away behind at the brain right now, and have been for a couple of days. Sleep is also starting to come at a premium, since there is this crazy mix of emotions that boil down to an almost even mixture of excitement and terror.<\/p>\n<p>As I talk to other first time athletes also tapering for this race, I find that not only am I not alone, but pretty much all of us are in the same boat. There is a lot of panic going on over all sorts of things. Unfortunately, at this point, there really is not a thing we can do to address our worries. So I put down a few things that I am reminding myself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can&#8217;t control the conditions, I can only pack appropriately.<\/li>\n<li>I am as prepared as I can be. It is what it is.<\/li>\n<li>Race Day won&#8217;t come any faster by worrying about it.<\/li>\n<li>Race Day won&#8217;t come and slower by wishing it to do so.<\/li>\n<li>I will either finish, or I won&#8217;t. <\/li>\n<li>Something <em>WILL<\/em> go wrong, I need to be prepared and to deal with it.<\/li>\n<li>I will want to quit at some point, I&#8217;ve trained enough to know that.<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully, I&#8217;ve trained enough to get past that moment.<\/li>\n<li>The people around me that have supported me through training, they deserve medals too.<\/li>\n<li>No, I cannot go for a long ride\/run\/swim just because I feel good. Stick to the plan.<\/li>\n<li>Whatever happens, it has been worth it to get this far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever had pre race jitters 2 full weeks before a race before, but I certainly do this time. Tapering started the jitters. The second guessing of &#8216;did I train enough&#8217;, &#8216;am I ready&#8217;, and &#8216;can I finish this&#8217; are all eating away behind at the brain right now, and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weareogre.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}