everything . If you haven ’ t prepared and you go to a race , you already know you ’ re going to fail . When you ’ re prepared , you ' re prepared to win and you ’ re prepared for all the things that can go wrong .
When actually you ’ re at the race , you ' re just executing . I have three things that I ' m really big on emphasizing : mindset , preparation , and execution . If you ’ re not doing 100 % of each of these , you don ’ t have the full package and you ’ re not going to be performing when the time comes . You have to have the mindset from the get-go . That mindset takes you all the way to the finish line when the final race is over .
If you ’ re not fast enough , you have a mindset to adjust and still keep pushing and not actually get discouraged from it .
Preparation is the biggest thing . That ’ s what we ’ re doing here [ at the training camps ]. We ’ re preparing . We ’ re preparing to work on bikes . We ’ re preparing to hone our skills for sprint speed . We ’ re going to do two full-on days of racing , but inbetween the special test , we ’ ll work on bike skills .
Steve Hatch is coming as a rider coach . He ’ s been coming for the last several years to coach the riders . He ’ s going to observe the first two days . Then we ’ re going to break
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