Hi,
I am a high school runner who opted not to run spring track. As a trade-off, I decided to focus on a LOT of base mileage to really kill it in xc next season. Any advice?
Last season, I ran about 30-35 mpw throughout the season, peaked at 40 mpw, and the lowest mileage i ran was about 20 mpw.
I ran 22 miles last week, and am trying to bring that up to 40-55 and peak at 60 one week. I'll take a week off before summer, and then go back in with about 40-50 mpw. Is this a good plan?
Why couldnt you run 50 miles a week during track season
Building up your miles is a good plan. Not running track isn't.
You will benefit 100 times more running track. You are young and not yet developed as a runner. Running economy and just time spent running fast and racing is much more important than god forsaken "base miles".
You have to run fast if you want to run fast. /eot
Not a very good decision to avoid track to focus on XC. You've got a long time until XC; next year do both.
If you plan on running in college coaches look at your track times over XC performances. In XC it's hard to quantify your times. A 15:00 on one course is a totally different thing, than a 15:00 on another. So then you go to place (as XC is ALWAYS more about place than time.) but again, that is subjective. So you won X invitational, who was there, who wasn't, who was hurt... again hard to quantify.
But if you run a 9:10 3200, you can do that solo or vs competition, you can run that in Iowa or CA, or AL... it's the same performance. Very easy to quantify vs other runners they are recruiting.
Run track next year.
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