Nothing unsettles a rival like seeing you at the track again, every single morning, at the same time.

Consistency is unsettling in a way that big performances are not. A single impressive day can be dismissed as luck or a good mood, but somebody who is simply there every morning cannot be explained away, and there is nothing to compete with except more mornings. Repetition makes a person hard to discount.

Choose a time you can actually keep and keep it, even on the days when the session is poor. The quality of any one morning matters much less than the fact of it. Count months rather than sessions, and let the record speak for itself.