Folks--
An interesting article in the NYTimes today, about a study looking at what athletes can do when they _believe_ they can go faster:
"A Little Deception helps Push Athletes to the Limit"
To me, what is interesting about the study is not the deception--- I don't believe that deception is a good way to train athletes in the long run--- but the fact that when athletes believed that they could go faster, they did. The brain ordinarily tries to limit the expenditure of aerobic energy long before the actual limit of the available energy.
As Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under 4 minutes, said: “It is the brain, not the heart or lungs that is the critical organ. It’s the brain.”
Train the mind, and the body will follow.
