How do you manage your stress before your race?

On race day, I'm still stressed but I've learned to channel my energy in the right direction by setting goals the night before such as technique, mental and pacing. Writing them down and discussing them with my coach helps me focus on my purpose and have a plan for managing my energy.
 
Transcript: "Hi Leah. So the honest answer is I am still stressed on race day and I think it's important to acknowledge that. I think we get better at managing it and we better get better at racing through it, but it's not realistic for me to think I will never be stressed ever. I won't be nervous. So I've learned to really embrace it and know that when I am nervous, that's a sign that my body is ready. But that said, some of the things I do to channel that nervous energy and make sure it's going in the direction. I I wanted to our I set goals the night before. So let's say it's a 10 K skate race the night before I sit down and I literally write them down, write them down, either on the notes, app on my phone or write them in a journal, just the process of getting them out, really helps me and then I share them with a coach. And so one goal is technique, how am I going to be efficient? You know? This course, maybe maybe we're in Davos and it's a ton of vetoing. So what am I going to? About do I need to think about getting my hands high or getting my hips forward or a powerful push and long Glide. You don't come up with the technique Mantra, then I have my mental goal and that is when the going gets hard and we know it will. What am I going to say to myself? You know maybe all it is, is reminding myself. How do I want to feel at the Finish Line? I want to know, I gave it everything I had and so when it's tough in this moment, I just want to remember like when this is done in like 10 more minutes if I can Push through this, I'm going to feel so proud of myself for sticking it out. So, I've got a mental goal and kind of a cue word ready to say to myself when it gets tough in a race, and then I also have a pacing goal because you can't just go blasting out of the gates and it 10K and hope to survive. You have to have a plan. So I kind of break down the course, maybe there's three significant climbs, I kind of want to break it down and plot out, you know, how am I going to manage my energy and having these very concrete goals? Is that really really helps me on race day because I'm not just stressed or nervous. I'm there with a purpose and I know exactly what I'm going to do and what I'm going to say to myself."