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Race-Day Nerves: How to Turn Anxiety Into Fuel

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Nervous before a race? Good. Here’s how to turn pre-race anxiety into energy that powers performance instead of sabotaging it.

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Managing Pre-Race Anxiety: How I Help My Athletes Navigate the Mental Side of Peak Training

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Learn how to manage pre-race anxiety during peak training. Coach Croft shares mindset strategies, visualization tools, and real-world coaching insights to help runners channel nerves into confident race-day performance.

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