university running only 20 to 30 miles a week.

u cant be serious? most freshmen in high school run more than that. Heck most middle schoolers run more than that.

A good reason to not attend Virginia Tech in the first place.

In high school we ran:

15-20 miles a week

5 hard days

Gizmo wrote:

A good reason to not attend Virginia Tech in the first place.

Hahahah hats some funny s***.

What's the story?

How the hell do you only run that much. Even on race days you go 2 mile warm up, 5 mile race, 2 mile down. Thats 9 right there!

It's actually funny. I used to think I was a low mileage coach until I started reading stuff like this. I have high school freshman girls running that much.

In college, I ran almost that much (15-20), and I was a sprinter!

I averaged 30mpw during college.

400- 48

800- 1:50

1500- 3:50

8K XC- 25:58 (at altitude)

Average pace per mile during mileage days - 5:30

My teammates ran 70mpw but 40 of that was junk 8:00/mile pace. I actually ran 1.5 to 2 times more quality miles than they did and rested better by taking days off instead of doing lazy 14 milers. I think 40mpw is ideal if you're the sprinter type who rolls everyday. You just need to utilize your restrictions to your advantage.

Typhoric wrote:

I averaged 30mpw during college.

400- 48

800- 1:50

1500- 3:50

8K XC- 25:58 (at altitude)

Average pace per mile during mileage days - 5:30

My teammates ran 70mpw but 40 of that was junk 8:00/mile pace. I actually ran 1.5 to 2 times more quality miles than they did and rested better by taking days off instead of doing lazy 14 milers. I think 40mpw is ideal if you're the sprinter type who rolls everyday. You just need to utilize your restrictions to your advantage.

You suck, you could have been in the low 3:40's if you would have done at least 70 mpw. But hey! f*** it right? I mean... what's the price of glory anyway? 3:50 is great anyway, but compared to 3:40 you suck complete ass.

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift, b****."

- =)

I had a great Freshman and Sophmore coaches who taught me what kind of training I should do to be a competitive distance runner. But by my Junior year, we got a new coach. She was horrible. Her experience was in field events and sprinting events. The majority of my workouts would have a total mileage of 3 miles or so. All of us distance ladies complained. Since I was the number 1 distance lady, she called me into her office to tell me that I had better be doing just her workouts and none of my own. (I had been going out before practice to run some tempo type miles to supplement her workouts.) She proceeded to tell me that I was not in xc season and when I was racing on the track I needed to think of myself as a sprinter. I then pointed out that I was racing the 10k which was 2 times the distance that I was doing in xc. She got real quiet and then said, "Oh, yeah." She still was a rotten coach for more reasons than I will get into but she never gave me any more flack about supplementing her workouts.

Is it Stony Brook... I hear they run little miles per week... but

I think the school has already been named....

That WAS some funny $hit!!!!!!

It's a shame to see what's happened to the distance program at Virginia Tech since Ben Thomas arrived. Hell, they ran 9:37 in the DMR with all underclassmen the year before he arrived. They have not been under 10:00 since then. We used to race those guys and they had some tough runners. Hay, 30 miles a week baby, 30 miles a week. Get out dude, got out of there.

In that case, you are note probably the worst team in the ACC. You are the worst XC team in the ACC.

Marcus runs that far every saturday afternoon.

Gizmo wrote:

A good reason to not attend Virginia Tech in the first place.

I heard as much last year but didn't believe it could be true. This makes a few people that have said similar things. One of their XC team members said they ran 8X200M for a workout on August 20 of this year. Our HS team hasn't even done 200's yet.

My college team was close, but not as bad. Maybe 40-50 miles MAX, and that was during base phase. And our coach was big on hard interval sessions all the time. I remember one time he emailed all of us at the end of July saying it was time to get started on interval workouts. All of us were to be running long intervals (1000s-1600s) @ race pace, and 200s-800s @ sub-race pace once a week. He was quite knowledgeable.

Still, that's double what this guy is talking

OH MAN. wrote:

I don't want to name names becuase i don't want to embarrass them.

Chances are you don't have to, your team is embarrassing themselves every weekend they race.