Quit criteria

A key to preventing a DNF is clear “quit criteria”.

If you can make an analysis of when you could or could not quit, BEFORE things start hurting and you get tired, this makes it so much easier when it gets hard.

Instead of 'arguing' internally with your weak self for hours and hours about whether you should quit or not, you can stop the negative thoughts early by saying: nope, the “quit criteria” are not met and so I will carry on.

In the last couple of years, I ran over 8000 competitive kilometers. Over 8000km where I could not, like in training, say that I could call it a day and another time it would be better. When my quit criteria aren’t met, I don’t quit.