I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.
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Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.
I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I look at the specific demands of a certain race and tailor my training towards that.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.
For me, I always think about keeping my upper body relaxed, my hips level, and my right side down on the turn. If I work on nailing those three things at every practice, I hope that by the time I get into a race situation I can stay completely focused on the task at hand, and the rest will happen naturally.
Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
When I'm starting a race, I just completely narrow down my vision and focus on what's directly ahead of me.
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.