Being In the Moment

I came across an old news clipping from a high school athlete that I knew.  She won the Penn Relays on her last jump and broke the high school record.  When asked how she did it she said she did not focus on how far she had to jump, she just concentrated on correlating what she had to do on her final jump .  I was surprised to see a high school athlete be able to express what was the difference on her final jump that gave her the victory.  I have been involved with athletes on my former biking team who would choke on the exchanges flying off the the bike  decelerating very quickly and I know the difference was not that they could not do it but they were overly concerned about failure and thus were not able to correlate their body movements in those split seconds.  It's all about being in the moment and the great ones figure out a way to do just that.