The Importance of Setting a Context in Training

The most painful race of the year is always the first race because you just have no tolerance for the pain. That's why I like to put intensity into people's training even early season to remind them that it's going to feel like this. It's not an unknown. You've been here. Yeah. And they need that exposure to not being in control of the pain in order to be able to exercise that full capacity that they've developed so well in their solo training.