Multiple Races in a Meet

High School Running Distance

7 years ago 05/25/2016 11:20am EDT

Hi Everyone,

I'm a little late posting this, but I wanted to know how to recover in between races. My coach has had me tripling or quadrupling in every dual meet this season. I've been running the first event, the 4x8, then a short recovery of only the 100's then the 1600, then a long recovery, the 3200, then back to back into the 4x4. I've been generally alright with it because I've been able to take it easy on one or two of the races the way the meets worked out competition wise, but that is going to change for my league championship meet. In that meet I'm going to do the 4x8, 1600 and 3200, and I'm worried about having to do them all out and my recovery between (15 minutes between 4x8 and 1600 and about an hour and a half between 1600 and 3200). My coach refuses to teach us how to do any of this stuff, so any advice would be very helpful, whether it's tips for recovering between the races, or how to push yourself for that much racing in a day.

7 years ago 05/25/2016 7:19pm EDT

re: Zddz

Bump.

The only thing that worked for me was mileage. I ran basically the same times in high school and college (quite disappointing), but I ran 50-60 mpw in college vs. 20 mpw in HS. It made a huge difference in recovery between races, even if the PRs were roughly the same. I would do 4:35 1600 / 10:35 3200 doubles in HS. In college I would do 4:15 (1500) and 9:15 (3000).

As far as what you can do right now between races, I'm not sure what works best.

7 years ago 05/26/2016 7:38am EDT

re: zephito

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately as far as mileage goes, we've been steadily decreasing this season, down from 45 during cross country to 30 during indoor to 15-20 if we're lucky now. I started this post too late because my race was yesterday, but I'm still interested in people's advice on the topic. For reference though. I ran a pr in the 4x8 (2:04), then fell behind in the mile at 1000 and took it easy to finish it out in 5:04 (only top 5 place and I was in 6th and struggling), then in the 3200 I went out in 2:30, then hit mile 5:10 and closed the second mile in 5:55... It was a though meet for everyone because we're in our first heat wave of the year and it's 90 degrees out and sunny. I think that further exacerbated my struggle recovering though.

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