WTF that's almost a marathon. Seems a bit excessive for a college XC plan.
WTF that's almost a marathon. Seems a bit excessive for a college XC plan.
16 miles is not almost a marathon. It's an appropriate long run for anybody running 75-80 mpw or more, so I'm not really seeing the issue here at all.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
WTF that's almost a marathon. Seems a bit excessive for a college XC plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4OpM8AeJA
We get it. You don’t run. Just admit it.
I was at a Big Ten school, 15 miles in my mind was the standard. If it was shorter than that it was a short 'long run', if it was more than 15 it was a bit longer. The longest I went was 20 a couple of times during college. So 16 is nothing outrageous at all, pretty common.
These guys could do really well in the Gate River Run 15k in jacksonville.
I run for a random D3 school and I had a 16 mile longrun this past weekend. No big deal. Only 75 miles a week.
LOLOLOLOL wrote:
I was at a Big Ten school, 15 miles in my mind was the standard. If it was shorter than that it was a short 'long run', if it was more than 15 it was a bit longer. The longest I went was 20 a couple of times during college. So 16 is nothing outrageous at all, pretty common.
For sure. I know a few Big Ten runners and 15 milers on the backroads was pretty common.
I know a 800m runner who was doing 17 milers.....I'm looking at his running log right now.
Monday - 5 miles easy
Tuesday - 200m/400m repeats
Wednesday - 8 miles easy
Thursday - 5 mile tempo + 200/400m repeats or hills
Friday - Hill reps
Saturday - off
Sunday - 12-17 mile long run.
"Sixteen miles? That's not a long run.... just kids having fun."
I've ran with college runners all year until xc season officially started back for them. They hit 90-100 mpw for their highest weeks, so 15-18 mile long runs were every week. Not excessive at all, just the norm.
16's normal. That's 20% of an 80 mile week. Their workouts look solid for xc, 12x800 (600 flat, 200 steep), 5x1600 + strides; 8M tempo at 5:27. Big group handling the last. Looks like they'll be much improved.
16 miles seems pretty fairly reasonable for a college program. However I am curious to see how Duke preforms in the upcoming weeks as I think they are one of the only teams that still has a season. Just watching some of Billy Dix workout videos it looks like they have been putting some serious work. Maybe they will be an up and coming NCAA threat in the next few years.
who names their kid billy dix lmao
Lol ur so dumb, every single college D1 program has a 16 mile long run, if not longer. You know absolutely nothing
Billy Dix is goated
16 miles was pretty standard for the XC guys at my D3 school. (I was a soccer player, but I joined them for one of those.)
AYY YOOOO chill on me
I was a jumper at a D1 mid-major 40 years ago. Our distance guys were good, however, with a couple All-Americans (the rest of us sucked by comparison). We had an all-night Saturday night bus ride back from our conference meet (the only meet I ever won) and when we were waking up, the distance guys were getting nervous about missing their every Sunday 7 AM 20 miler with some other local runners. We pulled in the athletic dorm parking lot right about 7 and there were a couple guys standing there getting ready to run. The distance guys told us to take their bags in and they literally ran off the bus and kept running on their 20 miler.
btw, one of those guys had tripled at the 1-day conference meet in the 5k, 10k, and steeple. He may have won all three, but there were other good guys, so I'm not sure of that.
Made quite an impression on me, obviously, since I remember it 40 years later. I thought anything more than 9 steps was long distance. That number of 20 miles was mind-boggling.
I've since run 50 mile ultras, but at the time I couldn't get my head around 20 miles.
We were a decent (usually in the top 25 but below top10 teams) D3 program. Nearly all of the guys on the team always ran a Sunday 16 miler. We had a couple of 800/1500 type guys who would only do 12-14, and a couple of 10k guys who would often do 18-20.
DI... we focused on speed (sub-24:00) and so the longest I ever went in my four years was 18 miles, but it was at 6:00/mi pace.
bartholomew_maxwell wrote:
WTF that's almost a marathon. Seems a bit excessive for a college XC plan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB4OpM8AeJA
Sounds like you're lazy.
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