For the first six months, life felt really hard. The anxiety, insomnia and horrible period symptoms made me feel like there had to be something really wrong.
Whether you are a pro-athlete or just happy to finish your race, your mindset matters. It’s not enough to train physically hard; we have to take care of our heads, too. But somewhere between all the running, biking, swimming, foam rolling, stretching, eating, drinking and sleeping, the mental dimension of our training sometimes gets lost.