Every practice session is a letter you’re mailing to the version of you who shows up on game day.

Practice pays out later, which is the whole difficulty with it, since the effort and the reward sit far apart. What you are doing is stocking the shelves for a version of you under pressure who will have no time to think. On the day you do not rise to the occasion, you drop to whatever you rehearsed.

Make one session this week resemble the real conditions: same speed, same noise, same order. Do the parts you usually skip, because those are the ones that show. Then let the day arrive without needing to cram.