Track and Field Blogs - Melissa White

Well tomorrow will be the end of my downtime, and my first run in the last two weeks. A lot of people have a hard time taking time off from running, but I really think allowing your body to rest after a hard segment is just as important as training in the long run. It was nice to have a break after the last segment to think about the positives and negatives of my last few races. I think a lot of things went well and it felt really good to PR in the 3k, 10k, and 15k but I also realized that the segment lasted a bit too long and I ran out of gas for the last 10k at Stanford. My 10k at Stanford showed that we have to adjust things for the next segment and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Running really is a learning game and I don’t know if I will ever stop adjusting my training. Most importantly the last two weeks have given me a mental break from the day to day grind of training. I feel much more refreshed and ready to train hard again. I will start back with a few weeks of easy mileage to get in the swing of things and then add some workouts back in. My main goal for the next segment is to run a huge PR on the track in the 10k and hopefully run some more PR’s on the road. I’m sure I will feel pretty rough running the next few days but within a couple weeks everything should be back to normal. Happy Easter and have a great run.