Neat article -- www.nytimes.com/.../20best.html -- and something I imagine we've all experienced as competitors -- racing makes us faster.
I guess the trick is to get seeded next to someone who you don't believe is actually too much faster than you, but who has strategically sandbagged their time by about 2%.
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Back to the article -- the last sentence is so important.
A former coach gave me some "coach's watch" slightly optimistic times from a practice set thinking that would motivate me to go faster in a taper race.
I had a best time at the meet but went slower than the time he told me I'd done in practice. It was demoralizing. I always had doubts in him after learning he fudged my time.
Back to the article -- the last sentence is so important.
A former coach gave me some "coach's watch" slightly optimistic times from a practice set thinking that would motivate me to go faster in a taper race.
I had a best time at the meet but went slower than the time he told me I'd done in practice. It was demoralizing. I always had doubts in him after learning he fudged my time.
