Bouncing Back

Before a race, we train our hearts out, study the course, prepare our mind, visualize success, taper marvelously, sleep more and eat all the right things. Yet for reasons beyond comprehension, sometimes the day just doesn’t go the way we envisioned. It’s a tough pill to swallow for any athlete, no matter the circumstances, but you can find solace in the fact that it does happen to everyone at some point (if not multiple times) in their racing career.