Invisibe Strides: Speed from Silence by Omar Defrey

A poised, high-velocity portrait of mind and body under the starter’s gun, Invisibe Strides begins in the quiet between heartbeats and follows an elite runner through doubt, injury traces, and the classroom of breath. A rival from the Caribbean sharpens purpose; a wall seems to breathe during rehab; visualization sessions play out on a wet track; the “sound of the gun in the head” is trained to mean begin, not break. From Los Angeles meets to the hundredth that changes the map, Omar Defreny writes with precise, athletic lyricism about craft that survives pressure and the road that remains after the bow.
This is a playbook woven into a story: silence before effort, rhythm in the nerve, corners of calm inside loud arenas. By the last pages, choosing your room your portable focus becomes the practice that carries every race, and every life, forward.
What you will learn
• How to “start in silence”: pre-race breath ladders, cue words, and posture resets
• Injury as information: reading the trace, rebuilding with pacing and patience
• Training with doubt on your shoulder turning rivalry into clean fuel
• The wall that breathes: micro-routines for composure during hard sessions
• Visualization on difficult days: wet-track reps, sensory anchors, and film loops
• Nervous system rhythm: arousal windows, downshifts, and between-rep recovery
• Reframing the gun: converting adrenaline spikes into focus within seconds
• Racecraft for margins: tactics when a hundredth of a second decides everything
• After the bow: debriefs, journaling, and long-arc habits that outlast a season
Who this book is for
• Athletes and coaches seeking reliable mental skills that hold at speed
• Readers of literary sports narratives about pressure, craft, and resilience
• Performers in any field who need fast resets and portable calm
Keywords that help readers discover this book
sports psychology, running mindset, breathwork, visualization, injury recovery, racecraft, flow under pressure, elite performance, micro-routines, resilience
Open Invisibe Strides and learn to hear the gun, hold your room, and let the quiet between heartbeats carry you through.