The Waiting Is The Worst Part

It's all in their eyes.

Waiting around before starting your pre-race warm-up is torture.  Anxiety wells up inside of you and at some point, unless you are one of a very fortunate few, doubt, fear, and the most creative excuses for poor performance launch an invasion of the runner's psyche.  Whether those things are allowed to squander a race altogether is always entirely up to the runner.

Or maybe that was just me.