Running 10 miles everyday before school

do it.

why not just run more during practice?

I tried to do this in high school and it was brutal, mainly because 5 am is EARLY.

What I found out to be better was when I got done practice (usually 5pm) I would go home, eat dinner, relax and go out at 8pm and run 4-6 miles easy.

My practices in HS were usually 4-6 miles.

is your coach dirk seibold? that would be very bad to run 10 in the am. how bout get your priorities straight. stop chancing girls, get your rest at night. running in the am and then more at practice. . .16 miles a day will only make you worse. you're prolly only running 35 miles a week. . .jumping up to over 100 isnt gonna work. come on you are smarter than that!

Run maybe 4 before school and see how your body handles that, then add maybe 2-3 after practice every day if you really want to up your milage. Remember, quality over quantity in-season. It's base phase, summer and winter, that should be used to up your max milage. Seasonal milage should only be a percentage of your max. But running it like I said is probably the best way to get by, upping your milage and improving in-season, without killing yourself. G'luck boss.

16 miles a day will make me worse? IDIOT. I've been in the 70-80 mile range for most of the summer.

Why don't you focus on studying more so that you can spell and complete a sentence correctly?

LondonUK wrote:

Why don't you focus on studying more so that you can spell and complete a sentence correctly?

I'm sure that'll help me pr in the 5k.

whitewater wrote:

16 miles a day will make me worse? IDIOT. I've been in the 70-80 mile range for most of the summer.

I, like the poster you were referring to, are just trying to help you. How dare he not know how much milage you run in the summer! That said, 16 miles a day when you're racing 2-3 times a week with some form of workout in the mix at least once WILL make you worse. You're the IDIOT if you think a schedule like that won't leave you overtrained or injured, and an even bigger IDIOT if you think insulting people is the way to get more constructive advice.

The only workout we do is a hill day. Only mileage. At most I would be doing 15 easy miles a day with a 13.1 mile day in there when we race. And where the heck do you get racing 2-3 times a week from? We race once a week and theres a week of no racing between the last meet and region.

I didn't mean to call him an idiot. But he may have not realized that there is about 5 weeks after school starts until the first XC race.

High-schoolers are known for racing too often with dual meets weekly and invitationals also weekly. I remember weeks when we'd sometimes have to race Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If your schedule is that lenient I'd say go for it but don't be afraid to back off for a couple days when you jump into the morning 10 milers and start to really feel it. Maybe let those in one day at a time every week so that you aren't jumping into 50+ miles all at once at 5am every week. And yes, even if you are used to running more than that in the summer, even well more, the time that you run is also going to make a difference and I've always found longer morning runs to be harder than longer evening runs.

ok go with the 16 miles a day see where it gets ya! i assure you none of the footlocker finalists are training with that much stupidity. why 10 miles in the am if youre only doing 70-80? why not 6-7? 10 miles everyday @ 5am is easier said than done too!

One mans 5am is another mans 5pm.

At my HS (BITD) there was a guy (he actually got written up in "How They Train" or some such) who, before practice (I guess he had a free hour beforehand) would always run 20 quarters, then do whatever (minimal) workout the team was doing. This was every single day of practice.

Hey, worked for him...

If I were you, I'd do 5-ish in the AM weekdays, plus the team workouts, and do a long run on Sundays. If you've been at 70-80 in your base phase, you'll probably race better off of a little less in season, especially if you're running a couple of workouts (your hill day plus your race counting as a hard effort). You can also hammer a bit on the PM stuff with the team. No reason to run more miles in-season than you did in summer. As a bonus, a shorter AM effort means just a little more sleep

[quote]whitewater wrote:

My highschool cross team isn't very and the coach keeps practices short and sweet.

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haha, when people say, they 'practice' their running it always makes me laugh.

When i think of practice for anything, i think of everyone standing around with the coach talking and not much else going on.

I'm just gonna try the 10 everyday and see what happens. I know my team and the hill day isn't hard either. A hill day is basically, run half a mile warm up, 5 by 30 meter hills, run 2 miles.

And greenguy. I guess you've never been to a practice?

greenguy wrote:

[quote]whitewater wrote:

My highschool cross team isn't very and the coach keeps practices short and sweet.

quote].

haha, when people say, they 'practice' their running it always makes me laugh.

When i think of practice for anything, i think of everyone standing around with the coach talking and not much else going on.

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I used to run before school in HS. The problem I had was that i would get extremely hungry during school because of the extra calories I was burning.

I only ran 2-4 miles before school about twice a week. As long as you don't suffer academically from it (falling asleep in class), it is a really good idea.

But if you are anything like I was, make sure you eat a good breakfast and pack a big a lunch.