Henry Bushnell for Yahoo discussing Emma Hayes's current practice of barely using substitutes even when the players are visibly exhausted:
In the video, [an ultramarathoner] talked about constructing “pain caves” in her mind. It’s a concept she has detailed repeatedly over the years en route to the top of ultrarunning. It’s “that point where you physically can’t keep going,” she said in one interview — a point Hayes knew the USWNT would reach Tuesday, whether winning, losing or tied.
“That’s when your mind takes over,” [the ultramarathoner] said. “And you dig in with your brain to help your body keep going. My goal is to get to the pain cave and go in and make it bigger, with hopes that every time I make it bigger, I can reach a little farther into myself next time.”
Also, Girma reminds me of the antagonists in Qntm's "There is No Antimemetics Division"--makes putting out fires look so easy you forget there was ever a potential danger.
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