[Lynne Schroeder]

Tracy,

I love the idea of practicing visualization by looking at a course map in the morning, then a lunch and dinner. Actually, I don’t have a problem remembering the courses as visualized or as run until… I watch the video. Then my brain somehow likes to pull up the memory/vantage point of the video at points rather than my actual vantage point or my visualized vantage point.

I’ve actually been playing around with it from the Open and I can easily bring up the actual memory without a problem before I watch the video. After I watch the video, I need to make a conscious effort to remember the actual run rather than the video. After I watch the video there are pieces of the video that want to creep back into the actual memory, typically the OMG moments 😉

So, if I have this right we are actually dealing with 4 different memories:

Visualized (before the walk thru)
Visualized (after the walk thru with tweaks)
Actual Run
Videoed Run

I think you are right, my brain kinda de-emphasizes the visualized after the actual and then tries really hard to replace the actual with the video version. Hey, the hard drive is only so big, you’ve got to delete something right LOL

Fun exercise!

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