The training is in, legs are resting and the details are being planned - I'm a week away from my first 100. Now comes the most important part - knowing I can run it. This isn't just a simple belief or convincing myself that I can do it, it's now psyching myself up - it's past belief into a deep knowing. Beliefs themselves are a useful tool but with limits - another belief - presented more skillfully or passionately can easily take the place of our starting belief. This can happen mid race - my belief can change in an instant with a blister, a cramp or simply tired legs. Yet getting ourselves to a deep knowing means that the race is already over, we have seen the end results in our mind and the rest is only putting the details into place - it's the follow through. We need to visualize in such detail that belief is no longer an option because we have moved past the point where options matter. It's done. In our minds we have already completed the race successfully and overcome any obstacle that may have presented itself. Time is an illusion and we are the magicians. We make it happen first in the mind and heart - our steps are the tools that carry the dream to a later reality. It's time for me to start knowing.
Peace,
Eric
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