I spoke with Colin this weekend at a local club team race. We discussed the notion of what kind of mentality he has in prepping for races at the track, as well as what he's used in the past for swimming.

- detached emotion. Just be in the moment, let your body do what comes natural. This is specific to training, competition, performance, etc. Ignore hyping your self up, wigging out, external or internal pressures, etc. Everything else is white noise.

- predetermined actions. thinking about exactly how it will go, and it will be. All of your training up until that point has been done, homework completed - now it's go time. So you just go.

And I just came to the realization - that if you can let go of the ego and put aside any notions that a performance, a training run, a result, etc defines who you are. Instead you just do something for the love of it, the passion of it, the feel of it - then a true harmony will exist. Between mind and body and the ability to move both at the same time.