Sorryaboutit wrote:
After a good season of soccer my sophomore year I decided I'd go out for track. Ran 25 mpw for like 7 weeks and then ran 4:40 and 10:05. I ended up with PRs of 9:15 4:12 and 1:56 my senior and ended up running D1 and running pretty well there. I never was really able to achieve solid training in my highschool years and didn't start running hard until college.
How much talent did I have and how much faster could've I ran in HS if I wouldve started running much earlier? Doesn't matter now, just curious looking back
In high school and college you rarely get to have a proper aerobic build up to find out what you can really do. Why don't you try to find out how great you could be? Give yourself a nice patient aerobic build up.
Build a very careful four-month aerobic base over hilly trails. Begin at 60 to 65% of maximum heart rate. Use the the down hills to develop your leg speed without jacking up your heart rate. Let your speed increase in the aerobic Zone 65 to 75% maximum heart rate. Stay in your aerobic zone so enzyme development will be continuous without being checked by a hard effort. Train your body so that you will be racing with a huge Rolls Royce aerobic engine, rather than a little Volkswagen engine. Train like you're going to the Olympics, building very patiently. Find out what you can do. Do that, and you will find satisfaction.