| AnyRunnerUSA |
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Even the 10k guys aren't doing more than 10 miles a day, and with two low mileage days per week it probably comes out closer to 50mpw for everyone. Practice is still 2+ hours per day because we have lengthy team meetings, team warmup, post run drills. We're also pretty bad. Any correlation you think? |
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Are you in the WCC? |
| ccdfd |
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yep |
| Mr. Obvious |
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You should transfer from Virginia Tech. |
| Ex-wcc |
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Ahahaha that comment is spot on. And that used to be true about all the schools in the wcc except Portland. |
| Qwes |
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50 mpw is more than enough to get good on. It all depends on what you're doing with those 50. What's your training like? |
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So by your reasoning, running 100 mile/week your times should be twice as fast!?? |
| Ex-wcc |
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That is not the right attitude to have to compete at the division I level. Even if you make the argument of quality over quanity, 50 miles a week is not respecting the level of commitment you should be giving your team. If you have time to go on letsrun, you have time to run more than 50 mpw. |
| Qwes |
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I have no idea what you're referring to. What did I say that made you say that? |
| Qwes |
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That is not the right attitude to have to compete at the division I level. Even if you make the argument of quality over quanity, 50 miles a week is not respecting the level of commitment you should be giving your team. If you have time to go on letsrun, you have time to run more than 50 mpw.[/quote] The 30 seconds it takes to post on letsrun would not have any noticeable increase on mileage. But you know that. 50 mpw being enough to get good on has nothing to do with having the right attitude or respecting commitments or d1. Your mileage should depend on your event, your health, and your available time. |
| final lugar |
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This sounds about like my team many years ago. 4 hours practice a day - but about 50 miles a week. Coach didn't want anyone doing doubles. Go to practice at 3 pm. Spend a hour or more waiting for people to show up, then listening to coach talk, waste some more time doing static stretches in a big circle, then some more time getting in a van and driving to where ever the run was supposed to be. Get caught in traffic. Stretch some more and wait for a few guys to pee. Actually spend a few minutes running. Get back and waste time waiting for stragglers, some more stretching. Drive back, more traffic. Go to the weight room and maybe lift a little. Everyone then has to go get massages and do ice bath. Shower. Coach talks again. Class dismissed 4 hours later. Nothing to show for it at meets. Hated it. Accomplished more in an hour in high school and ran doubles just about every day. |
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That is not the right attitude to have to compete at the division I level. Even if you make the argument of quality over quanity, 50 miles a week is not respecting the level of commitment you should be giving your team. If you have time to go on letsrun, you have time to run more than 50 mpw.[/quote] The 30 seconds it takes to post on letsrun would not have any noticeable increase on mileage. But you know that. 50 mpw being enough to get good on has nothing to do with having the right attitude or respecting commitments or d1. Your mileage should depend on your event, your health, and your available time.[/quote] You are not spending 30 seconds on letsrun. But you know that. |
| Qwes |
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That is not the right attitude to have to compete at the division I level. Even if you make the argument of quality over quanity, 50 miles a week is not respecting the level of commitment you should be giving your team. If you have time to go on letsrun, you have time to run more than 50 mpw.[/quote] The 30 seconds it takes to post on letsrun would not have any noticeable increase on mileage. But you know that. 50 mpw being enough to get good on has nothing to do with having the right attitude or respecting commitments or d1. Your mileage should depend on your event, your health, and your available time.[/quote] You are not spending 30 seconds on letsrun. But you know that.[/quote] ? |
| oldhalfmileguy |
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well it is April so one day is a meet and one day is recovery. So 5 days 10 miles a day 50 miles, what is wrong with that? Now you better be doing some quality work at this juncture so a few miles of intervals and then a long warm down etc. In my experience good runners do not need many miles as long as they do quality intervals with low rest. Although i was a halfmiler i got plenty of endurance doing fast repeats with little rest. In high school we used to do sprint the curve jog the straight for two miles. Halfway through the season of my sophmore year i could break ten minutes in that workout. I ran a race that way and ticked off alot of the big mileage people that i beat. One of those guys was a 9 minute 2 miler by his senior year. I don't reccomend that workout for a div 1 distance runner but my point i gained good endurance from very low miles but quality work. It can be done. |
| Julgbg |
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If you have a problem with it get up and start doing 30 minutes extremely easy 3 or more days a week. I did this my senior year secretly and within three months I was at my lightest weight and greatest fitness. When I showed my coach my training log and he saw all the doubles and how well I was doing he just told me to keep adding them in on my own. No one can make you not add in easy doubles, you never even have to tell people your doing them. Just have common sense and listen to your body when your coming into a peak race. Take control of your running, do doubles, don't be a workout hero, and trust yourself when your getting tired and run slower. Even if that means getting dropped by your team mates. |