May 1st 2001… I say enough… but?
More than 20 years have passed since my last Mountain Bike race, 20 years in which everything has really changed in the MTB world, bike, technique, preparation, routes and so on and so forth, and me, in the last 20 years , on a bicycle I will have spent 100km yes and no, yes you read that right, no more than 100km, while before, it was 300km on average, per week.
For me, Mountain Bike, from 1993 to 2001 was pure love, there was just me and her, a little boy and his bicycle, magazines, races, training, the athletic trainer and some friends, real ones.
Then, on May 1, 2001, in a provincial Cross Country race in Cambiasca above Verbania, a few kilometers after the start, on a beautiful climb, discouragement takes over, yet another performance below expectations gives way to disappointment and anger, anger that makes me grab the gear cable and crack, broken cable, broken gear, race over.
Since that day I have stopped cycling
From that day on, however, I started asking myself questions, which only after many years, began to find answers, one above all “Why did I do it?”.
I found the answers 15 years later, we are in 2016, at the end of a Mental Coaching path. That day, May 1st 2001, I didn't break the cord, but it was my head that “broke”!
From that moment I made a promise to myself, to help athletes make the most of their potential, making the most of their mental resources.
It happens to everyone at least once, from amateurs to the world champion, during a season, to want to "tear a cord", just because our body does not respond as we would like, or our results do not reflect our expectations but in those cases the reason is in the mind.
I am Alberto Botta, Mental Coach and in the coming months I will help you to train your mind, so as to allow you to achieve the results you have always wanted and this will be my biggest victory.
