Originally Posted by geneman
This is what I'm talking about. The real question is ... how does one learn to suffer? Is this ability innate or can we learn to embrace pain? Maybe it's a simple matter of tolerance.
-mark
g'day mark,
pain is pain is pain. You can train to produce a better 'outcome' before the pain sets in, you can train at your pain 'threshold' so that you can tolerate 'pain' for longer periods....but the pain is still there, its how you cope with it......personally, If i've prepared properly, (& i'm talking racing here), I'm mentally positive, that everyone else is hurting more than me......so i push harder, to soften up their will & their phsical ability to beat me when we get down to the wire. It probaly helps if you have a lot of self belief & arrogance about your ability to be better than those you are competing against, (look at lance)...pain will always be there my friend, its how you mentally deal with it...personally, pain is my friend (guess that makes me a wacko!),
cheers,
Hitchy