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insomnia at 10pm

October 3, 2007

i don't know if you can classify it as such, but i've been trying to go to bed for almost 3 hours. black. complete silence. a cool 73 degree room. the only thing that keeps me from dreaming something really awesome, that i don't even know about yet, is rehearsal. it's a habit i get into the nights before competition. but not in the fall. which is why i'm writing this. i go over each event in the decathlon one by one, mentally practicing it as if it were about to happen. i get goose bumps and adrenaline rushes all the same. i vision myself pr-ing in everything and crossing the finish line first by some rediculous margin. and there's always some extra burst of speed that last 200m of the 1500m that I WOULD only dream about!!

so then these thoughts led to me wondering if x-c men and women rehearse their races? i mean, 28-35 minute races would be pretty time consuming to practice in your head. wouldn't they?

please tell that track stars and field eventers aren't the only people who do this!! (sleepless smithers)

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#5	Jeff Wood October 19, 2007 at 9:57pm You guys and your Cobras. Funny story, my first year at Texas we had who used to have us visualize our races the day before. But because his voice was a bit nasaly everyone ended up focusing on trying not to laugh. That really helped the next day. reply
#4	Trey Hardee October 4, 2007 at 3:07pm mark, first of all... COBRA!!... secondly, accept my pending friend invite or i'm retracting it... thirdly, GONG!!... finally, this site is fresh off the meat rack, huh? right you guys? fresh off the meat rack... yeah. reply
#3	M V October 4, 2007 at 10:03am ryan, the minute i read it i thought of TPS reports.. and man trey beat me to it reply
#2	Mark Nichol October 4, 2007 at 9:00am ...is it weird that I dream excel? remember the days (when we did it right) that we dreamed halo and racing... mmmm...COBRA!! reply
#1	Dean Rugh October 4, 2007 at 8:51am Yea, I already got the new cover sheet. I just forgot to put it on this time. It'll never happen again. reply
#0	Trey Hardee October 4, 2007 at 7:52am poncho, did ya get the memo about the TPS reports? reply
#-1	Cara Hawkins October 4, 2007 at 6:18am I always suggest mental rehearsal especially on speed work days, but my coach thinks it is more important to actually run. We do have mental rehearsal, just with a fast forward button.. reply
#-2	Ryan Ponsonby October 4, 2007 at 5:38am I have recently experienced such insomnia. I get so excited about going into the office every morning. I imagine what the day will bring..."Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking, Just a moment"...yes! reply
#-3	Dean Rugh October 4, 2007 at 3:32am Yep. We do it too. We kind of run an abbreviated version of the race in our heads. Funny, but most of the time I fell asleep doing my mental prep. That's just how boring XC can be. reply
#-4	Joshua Neyhart October 4, 2007 at 3:18am we do.....maybe in a little quicker than real time, but well go over key points in a race, like that one hill or some turn. then we might imagine the guys we expected to be around us, think of what splits we want to hit, hear our breathing. we think about the start and finish. so yes we go over it in our head. reply