Practice What You Plan For years, I’ve heard (and believe in) the advice that visualizing races can help you run a better race. It may not work for everyone, but I find that if I’m going through a race in my mind, it helps me run the “real” race more efficiently and typically faster. Of course, knowing the race course (whether you’ve run the in race before or it’s a local race and you’ve driven or trained on the course before) is key . . . though I wouldn’t be surprised if