XC Pushed back, what now?

Don't want to make any assumptions but what about the end of your season? That will obviously hold greater importance in any training decisions. I know some states are considering shortening the seasons so are you just starting late and still ending in November at the same time? Also what state is this? I didn't realize any decisions were already made but I mainly look at the surrounding states to where I am in the mid Atlantic region.

if your state is cutting a month: continue training as you are and do tts in september

if your state is going into december: go back to base

not great outlook wrote:

Don't want to make any assumptions but what about the end of your season? That will obviously hold greater importance in any training decisions. I know some states are considering shortening the seasons so are you just starting late and still ending in November at the same time? Also what state is this? I didn't realize any decisions were already made but I mainly look at the surrounding states to where I am in the mid Atlantic region.

My state is NJ, the plan is to start beginning of October and end by thanksgiving. The current plan removes championship meet and replaces it with “sectional” meets if you know what those are. So there is no state meet this year ?

Yo, also a runner from NJ here. I'm just sticking with base mileage since sectionals is around the same time as it usually is. Hope this helps

Go back to base training. Why did you even switch so early? Add hills and strides. Base train more then ever as this will be a week year and focus on indoor/outdoor next year.

A good chance the whole xc season gets canned.

It depends on how you usually structure your training. If sectionals is scheduled only a week or two later I would just add a down week of mileage and strides to help recharge and follow it up with another bridge week of mileage with a fartlek or tempo run and strides thrown in.

At this time of year most of my athletes are doing one or two "quality" efforts which are tempos or some sort of pick ups/ shorter faster effort based running but nothing major. We don't typically hit on intervals until late August/early September.

Continue with base for another 2 weeks on top of what you'd normally do. Yes, the championship season is abbreviated but the end of the season takes place around-ish when it would normally be, around what would in a normal year be Groups/SMOC. So you can afford doing base until the end of August/early September, 6-7 weeks of a competitive phase and then a 2-3 week taper.

Ask your coach

Indoor? wrote:

Ask your coach

Depends.

Most HS (And college!) coaches suck.

Dubious advise.

helpmycctraining wrote:

My cross country season was pushed back till October so now I’m at a slight predicament. Should I restart my base training? I just ended my short month of base training and now I’m doing more intervals and threshold work along with faster runs and I’ve been feeling fitter than ever. If my season was pushed back a month should I re enter base training or continue what I’m doing with the inclusion of a small time trial in September?

You should do as the HS kid I coach. Run a linear system and just keep on develop until the races starts, simple as that! Forget about so called "base training". No need for that. :) Good luck!

Indoor? wrote:

Ask your coach

Novel!