PRed in my freshman season of college with a 26:02 8k. Will be spending the summer between 7.5kft and 9kft for altitude training for 8 weeks and will be doing workouts at 4kft (train high live low etc.) Will really be focusing on quality workouts, tempos, and somewhat high mileage (probably 85 mpw). What would be a reasonable expectation for how much time I can cut?
PRed in my freshman season of college with a 26:02 8k. Will be spending the summer between 7.5kft and 9kft for altitude training for 8 weeks and will be doing workouts at 4kft (train high live low etc.) Will really be focusing on quality workouts, tempos, and somewhat high mileage (probably 85 mpw). What would be a reasonable expectation for how much time I can cut?
If you really put in the work, stay healthy and so on, you could probably expect to take 30-45 seconds off of your time. Not insignificant.
PRed in my freshman season of college with a 26:02 8k. Will be spending the summer between 7.5kft and 9kft for altitude training for 8 weeks and will be doing workouts at 4kft (train high live low etc.) Will really be focusing on quality workouts, tempos, and somewhat high mileage (probably 85 mpw). What would be a reasonable expectation for how much time I can cut?
I think you mean "live high, train low".
Just do the best you can, but you could find Ben Levine's paper that kicked off "live high, train low" and see what the results were for them.
PRed in my freshman season of college with a 26:02 8k. Will be spending the summer between 7.5kft and 9kft for altitude training for 8 weeks and will be doing workouts at 4kft (train high live low etc.) Will really be focusing on quality workouts, tempos, and somewhat high mileage (probably 85 mpw). What would be a reasonable expectation for how much time I can cut?
If you really put in the work, stay healthy and so on, you could probably expect to take 30-45 seconds off of your time. Not insignificant.
Here is a problem. The poster is a frosh so you would expect some improvement without altitude so how much of his improvement could be attributed to altitude alone?
BTW, the avg for 5K in the Levine study was 13 seconds with a SD of 10 seconds (which is pretty decent size).
I improved by about ~25s in the 5k over this summer alone on 0 altitude training. That definitely isn't possible to do the same every single year but I've been told to expect a somewhat large time cut regardless between my freshman and sophomore year.