The Importance of Control in Racing

The pain that you don't have control over. That is the pain that potentially lowers somebody's threshold. As an athlete, when you're able to inflict it on yourself, I get the most nervous for Zwift racing and I'm making this epiphany now because I'm not in control of that pain. You're quite the opposite. Exactly. I'm along for the ride. I can do really well if I am doing my own workout by myself. Then I think I feel like I'm in complete control. But what's probably important is to reframe my thinking so that I'm not going into the Zwift race thinking I'm at the whim of everyone else. I