I saw this new ad from Cycleops recently in Bicycling Magazine. I love it:
It really struck a chord with me because this is exactly what I tell myself when I'm sluggin' it out on the trainer and I just don't fee like pushing. It usually does the trick. OK, my winning is different from others, I don't have an overall win (yet), but, it is in training when the performance is born. You can't just decide to go faster on race day, you can only go as fast as you've prepared to go. When you boil it down, the race is only a test to see whom has prepared the best and executed on the day. The winner has already won but will only be revealed to all at the finish line. Sometimes I think of it like a photograph (forget about digital photos for a second), during training, you take the picuture, it's set, the composition can't be changed, and on race day, you develop the film and see how the picture turned-out.
