Passage Summary: There are two ways to think while running: focusing on your body or ignoring it. Focusing on your body makes you mentally tired for over a day, but you need a fresh mind for a race.

Conclusion: Runners should avoid using associative strategies in the day or two leading up to a race.

Reasoning: Associative strategies cause long-lasting mental fatigue, which conflicts with the requirement of being mentally refreshed for competition.

Analysis: This stimulus sets up a conflict between a goal (being mentally refreshed for a race) and a specific behavior (associative strategies). Since the associative strategy causes mental exhaustion that lasts more than twenty-four hours, it is logically incompatible with being refreshed on race day. Look for an answer that completes the thought by suggesting runners steer clear of that specific strategy right before they compete.