00:00¿Qué es la carrera de la carrera?
00:30I'm running against so many other amazing athletes and starters as well, so I feel like they really pushed me in order to transition the way that I needed to and accelerate the way I needed to.
00:42So then at the end it was kind of like, oh wow, no Melissa, you were in a really, really good race.
00:48It's just like, no Melissa, you have this whole world ahead of you and you have accomplished so much.
00:55I thought that yesterday I had all the potential in the world to run 10-5, which is why I say that, you know, being in the race with such great starters, you know, I wish I could have been able to separate a little sooner.
01:08And then there's no telling what I could have ran. Obviously, I'm still happy, a big PB, fourth fastest ever to ever do it in our sport.
01:18And so, you know, obviously grateful about that, but still so hungry for so much more because I know that it's there.
01:23You came out of sleep last night, but what was it like that moment waking up today thinking, hang on, I'm world champion?
01:30Focusing on execution first gets you the results that you want.
01:33So, you know, I didn't realize until halfway through the season, like, oh wow, I really haven't lost 100-meter race this year.
01:39But then it was, by that point, it's like, well, it's too late. Like, no need to worry about that now because then that's when, you know, things start to go wrong.
01:46So the biggest thing that my coach has been telling me these last couple of meets is, you know, to just be yourself.
01:54Be Melissa. Do the things that have been working for you. Don't try to overdo it. Don't try to be someone you're not. Just be yourself.
01:59And as long as you be yourself, you focus on what you need to do, then you'll more than likely get the results you want.
02:06The score is 0-0. I'm a world champion in the 100, but nothing in the 200 as of right now.
02:13Over the next couple of days in competing in the 200, and just to see what I have in the tank, you know.
02:18I'm a world champion in the 100, but nothing in the 200 as of right now.
02:22And my mindset is, you know, I'm going to take the same approach that I did in the 100 into the 200.
02:28Obviously, there's an extra 100 meters, but I've kind of overcame that fear, you know.
02:33As a short sprinter, nobody ever wants to talk about, or me personally, I don't like to really focus on the extra 100 meters that I have to run
02:43just because it's like, oh, the lactic, it hurts, you know.
02:46It's like, ugh.
02:47And then once I got over that fear, like getting out of my own head and realizing, like, hey, Melissa, you know,
02:52if you stop whining and complaining, you could actually be really good at this.
02:55So I'm actually very excited to go out there over the next couple of days and compete in the 200,
03:03and just to see what I have in the tank.
03:05I was a collegiate athlete from a smaller D1 school of Coastal Carolina.
03:11It's just out there, just going with the flow.
03:13It's like I got out good, had no transition.
03:15It was just, but then I...
