Today is the first Saturday we haven't had a race since September, and it's been nice to be on campus, especially with Halloween last night. We've got two races left this season, the ECAC Championships and the Atlantic Regional Championships. These meets are different than our other meets in that we can only enter 7 runners into each race as opposed to our entire team. Thus, for about half the team, the off-season began last Saturday. While judging by my times, I should still be running right now, I've been hampered by a stress injury in my shin since late September, and last week, it got to the point where I was experiencing "diminishing returns", as my coach put it; despite the effort I was putting in running, cross-training, and getting treatment, my shin just wasn't responding. So, in order to recover as quickly as possible for the spring, I'm taking some time off from running; I haven't gone more than a few days without running in well over a year, and at the very least, it's going to be different.
I should be able to start cross-training significantly in the next week or two, but until then, all I can do is try to rally my teammates on, like I did yesterday, giving them splits on a track workout of 1K track repeats. We're still not 100% sure how our lineups are going to shake out for the next couple weeks, but no matter who ends up running where, I know we're going to put a strong seven on the line.
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