Serious thread here, serious replies, please. Male, 17, 6'2", 148lbs. My PR for XC this season is 18:07 off of 20 MPW. What do you think I could run if I bumped it up to, say, 40 mpw in the offseason to build some better base before the season starts next year?
Is sub 17 out of reach next year?
Knowing your age, running history, and under distance PRs would help a lot but without knowing that: yes, doubling your mileage could potentially put you sub 17 assuming you aren’t replacing hard workouts with easy mileage.
If you’re fast, it’s not unreasonable to drop a minute in 3-4 months even.
random_xc_runner wrote:
Serious thread here, serious replies, please. Male, 17, 6'2", 148lbs. My PR for XC this season is 18:07 off of 20 MPW. What do you think I could run if I bumped it up to, say, 40 mpw in the offseason to build some better base before the season starts next year?
Is sub 17 out of reach next year?
I went 16:58 off of 9 MPW and a ton of pickup basketball in college. Mileage affects everyone differently. My biggest examples are justyn knight and grant fisher in highschool. I will add that as a beginning runner when I broke 19 the first time I was only running about 20-30 mpw.
Ru n 40mpw and find out.
But for what its worth, there's no reason you shouldn't be sub 17 in a year
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