Race-day nerves are real - and they can make or break your performance. If you’ve ever stood in the starting corral with your heart pounding, thinking “I’m not ready” or “What if I can’t do this?”, this episode is for you.
In this episode of Master Your Mind on Race Day, running mindset coach Gillian shares practical, psychology-backed strategies to help you feel calm, confident, and mentally prepared before, during, and after your next race. Whether you’re running a 5K, half marathon, marathon, or your very first event, these tools will help you turn race anxiety into fuel - not fear.
You’ll learn:
- How to manage pre-race nerves using proven mindset techniques
- Why visualisation and mantras are powerful tools for race-day success
- How to reframe nerves as excitement
- The mental strategies runners use during a race to stay focused and strong
- What to do after your race to grow, reflect, and build long-term confidence
Plus, Gillian shares 9 powerful journal prompts to help you mentally prepare before race day and debrief intentionally afterward.
If you want to stop letting nerves or self-doubt sabotage your running, this episode will help you build a stronger, calmer, more resilient mindset - so you can show up on race day ready to run your best.
Work with Gillian:
For deeper support, Gillian works 1:1 with runners who want personalised race-day mindset strategies and long-term confidence. And inside The Runner Identity Project (TRIP), she helps runners transform mindset blocks into clarity, resilience, and an unshakeable runner identity.