How to not kill yourself during two week break?

Do drugs?

Take saunas. Sweating feels good, keeps you cleaned out.

go for short, easy runs. It won't "hinder your recovery". Active muscles heal faster. Try exploring places or running single track trails you don't normally go on because you have to run them too slow.

ruppresent wrote:

Like most high school students not competing at nationals, I am on my two week break. After a sub-par performance at the state meet in all events, I am eager to get back to training ASAP. However, with a two week break comes boredom, lack of sleep, and mild depression, as I'm sure many of you have experienced before. How do you combat this desire to train as well as stay sane during two weeks off?

Get in the pool. Do some fin swimming. Set your Casio to 20-30 min at a time and just stretch it out in the H2O.

-Frogman

ruppresent wrote:

Like most high school students not competing at nationals, I am on my two week break. After a sub-par performance at the state meet in all events, I am eager to get back to training ASAP. However, with a two week break comes boredom, lack of sleep, and mild depression, as I'm sure many of you have experienced before. How do you combat this desire to train as well as stay sane during two weeks off?

Get some hobbies bro.

get laid

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ruppresent wrote:

Like most high school students not competing at nationals, I am on my two week break. After a sub-par performance at the state meet in all events, I am eager to get back to training ASAP. However, with a two week break comes boredom, lack of sleep, and mild depression, as I'm sure many of you have experienced before. How do you combat this desire to train as well as stay sane during two weeks off?

Get some hobbies bro.

This.

The two week break thing is bullshit. If you're beat up after a season then yeah take some time off. If you are healthy and want to keep running just do it. Maybe doing a more easy runs or less volume might be good but this idea that after every high school season you need 2 weeks of no running to allow your body to recover is absurd.

Don't take a break if you're so eager to train. The two week break after a season is just an arbitrary time span coaches tell their athletes because they're just following the trend of other coaches. There is no definite science that's says you need two weeks off after a 3 month season. In my opinion, a break after a season is more for mental recouperation than physical, and since you don't need the mental break then don't take it.

Or you could drink a lot, that's what I did in college. You don't feel like running when youre hungover.

DId you ever consider that your sub-par performance is because you are tired after months of training and competition, and you need a break?

Take a week off and clear your head. Find something to do. Then, if you want, start some easy runs if you're that anxious. But the suggestion that rest is just some stupid thing coaches say is, well, a stupid thing to say.

Go fishing