The Otago para-javelin thrower knows not to worry about placings or medals.
Those are reliant on what other people do, and she cannot control that.
It is something she has lived — that throwaway line that you could break the world record then someone else could still come along and do better.
That happened to Robinson (26) at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.
Her world record of 43.32m lasted all of 20 minutes, before British rival Hollie Arnold snatched it from her to win gold.
So, when Robinson unleashes in the F46 javelin on September 3 at the Tokyo Paralympics, a good performance is all she is after.
If she can deliver that, she is confident of being among the medallists.
‘‘I’ve just got to focus on what can I do,’’ an excited Robinson, who won silver at the Rio Games in 2016, said this week.
‘‘Sometimes I think athletes get caught up in what other athletes are doing.
‘‘So I just have to make sure I’m on my game mentally so I can throw my throw and think, ‘OK, what do I need to improve for the next one?’ and go from there.’’
A gold medal has so far eluded Robinson on the world stage.
The 26-year-old has an impressive collection of silvers from world championship, Paralympic and Commonwealth Games meetings.
However, at each, Arnold has thrown slightly more.
This time, Robinson enters as the world record holder, having set that mark of 45.73m in 2019.
Alongside Arnold, a handful of other younger throwers pose threats this time around.
While her focus was not on them, Robinson admitted it could be hard not to think about the colour of the medal she was striving for.
‘‘It is [difficult not to], because I obviously have always had a silver or bronze the last few years.
‘‘So that gold medal is always in the back of your mind.
‘‘But I know what I’m capable of throwing will secure me that.
‘‘So if I can throw what I know I can on the day then that medal should hopefully be there.’’
Robinson had an injury-plagued last summer, but put out a handy 44.26m throw at the national championships in late March.
Competitions have since been few and far between, as plans to throw in Australia were scuppered by the closure of the travel bubble.
She is happy with how she has trained, though, and will do a pre-Games camp in Saga, Japan, to adjust to the heat and foreign conditions.
From there, she will move on to Tokyo, where she will throw on the night of September 3 — just hours after fellow Otago Paralympian Anna Grimaldi competes in the long jump.
