Last year was my freshman year and my first year running at all.
Going into XC, having not trained too much over the summer, I didn't have the best season, running a PR of 19:14 for 5k.
I improved a lot during track season though, running 2:09 in the 800 and 4:50 in the 1600 outdoors.
I haven't raced anything over 1600 seriously since my last XC season and have absolutely no idea what I am going to be running and what I should set my goals at.
I'll be training for the entirety of the summer.
aenglish wrote:
Last year was my freshman year and my first year running at all.
Going into XC, having not trained too much over the summer, I didn't have the best season, running a PR of 19:14 for 5k.
I improved a lot during track season though, running 2:09 in the 800 and 4:50 in the 1600 outdoors.
I haven't raced anything over 1600 seriously since my last XC season and have absolutely no idea what I am going to be running and what I should set my goals at.
I'll be training for the entirety of the summer.
Your goal should be to train consistently all summer.
I'd say your first 5k of the year could easily be 17:30 or faster and by the end of the season probably well below 17. That is if you work hard all summer and during the season.
Since last year was your first year of running it will be hard to project your times this year. You could see a massive improvement, or an average improvement. I agree with the idea that training consistently should be your goal.
I had identical track pr's freshman year and ran a 17:16 as a soph. Then 2:05, 4:38 in track.