I'm going to write it down here, and I'll be back to quote this post later...

I train my body too much and don't train my mind enough. The remainder of this racing season I am going to focus on training my mind. I'm done with being super-strong and not winning. I've never been a winner at much of anything before, always the talented nice guy who lost/took second by just the smallest of margins.
This last weekend I tore a cat 5 race apart on saturday by attacking 5x on the first lap, then getting my only teamate in the field OTF 25% of the way through the second lap, attacking/bridging to him, and killing myself in a 2man TT to get him enough of a gap to solo in. The next day I showed up, didn't race to win, and realized at the finish line that even after working harder at the front than anyone else... I still probably (almost certainly) could have won, had I been racing to win, ... but I wasn't focused in my mind on being a winner.

I will retrain my self-image to consider myself to be a winner and to "plan and prepare to win" instead of "plan and prepare to be strong".

This will take time and a re-consideration of my self-image, but I am going to turn myself into a machine...

I've lost more racquetball tournament matches by 15-13, 15-12, and more losing piano competitions by the thinnest of margins, more table-tennis matches at deuce, and more bike races by not shutting everything else out than I can even think about... no more.

The weakness isn't my body - the weakness is my mind.

While I have never considered it in this new light, I'll quote my sig line here, now in a different way: "You have to train to your weak points. Get ready to hurt, son." - FatBoy