I ran a 4:12 mile after one year of training.

Hey, you’re doing great! Keep up the good work, and don’t rush the process. If you get too far ahead of yourself with high mileage and heavy workouts, you run the risk of injury. Just keep running.

Your one of those really talented people

For clarification, I did not run XC in HS, and never even ran a tempo run. I am currently doing 55-60 miles a week in college.

Thank you

Tempos are a workout that benefits those with a solid base of running experience. You’ll get better at them. You’ll shine once the team gets to track work.

Not saying you can’t get good advice from some here, but hopefully your coaches at a Div I school are giving you solid feedback?

Congratulations! You are easily in the 99.9th percentile of talent for running and aerobically underdeveloped. At this point it's better to be consistent than good at tempos or whatever. If you stay healthy and put in the work you will become very good at longer distances. Enjoy!

Trust the training. I promise its working even if it doesn't feel like it - speaking from experience.

Update us when you break 4 later this year!

You don't know he's aerobically underdeveloped. I doubt he is, but we can only guess without his full athletic bio. Webb ran a 4:08 his first year of running, but he'd a huge aerobic base from club swimming since childhood.