Kilian Jornet Instagram – The best advice I ever got in my career it was to not think about the races but about progression. As a young athlete I had some talent and I loved working hard so after a couple of years I started winning some skimo races in the young categories, I was selected to go to international competitions and started dreaming of winning those races. At that point my coach at the moment, Maite, told me not to think about the races and the results I wanted or expected to do – the world championships, the world cup – but to think and focus about the process, about training and seeking progression. Since then, even if winning races is fun and a good motivation to train or to test myself, my focus has been always to progress. Focusing on the goal might be a short term good strategy to get super motivated and do hard work but it has a lot of downside, if the result is not as expected – and in racing that can come from many factors, some of them without our control – it’s easy to get frustrated and loose motivation. Also when reaching the goals we can sit there thinking we’ve accomplished what we wanted and don’t look further. At the end, we will be racing only a few days every year but we will be training every day, so I believe we should put the focus on the training, on the process and trusting that this will eventually lead us to good results. 📸 @julien_rai