Mead 1993 Mileage

that's some sweet training, a 20 min. run every morning and all those workouts

If I remember correctly the oregon drill was done barefoot whenever possible?

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Mead did bump up mileage after we left.

We only ran 40-50 as seniors, James and I were highest, and the most we ever hit was a 60. We ran any and all hills very hard on easy runs, even spreading out to the last two, then regrouped at the top and ran as a group. We also worked out like races.

The mileage was low. Mostly, we believed nobody could be tougher than us. Downside was it took me 2-3 years to adjust to higher mileage and training pace at Oregon.

Rob

thanks for that info. . godd stuff

Man, Matt Davis was one of the toughest competitors I have ever seen.

i wouldn't call 40 - 60 miles low for high school, 45 - 60 is a pretty good point to hit in a junior or senior on any varsity high school program i think. unless your coach just believes in maybe wearing out his top 7 and training 70 plus miles a week

Aubrey, you are a stud, but, just be happy that NTN was not around and the beast from the east did not get a chance to mop the floors with you guys.

Rock on

CB

Bennett wrote:

Aubrey, you are a stud, but, just be happy that NTN was not around and the beast from the east did not get a chance to mop the floors with you guys.

Rock on

CB

haha, i wish it was, we could have settled that debate with perscheid and the hausers on just how much we would have mopped jesuit and kingwood. i'm sure they won't see it that way.

Rob

All courses in Texas are 2.9 miles and flat and as for Jesuit...

In all honesty, your 93 Mead team was hands down the best HS XC team ever.

CB

Any idea what times the 1993 kids ran, not just the top 1-2?

Here you go Tinman. I put ** by the Mead guys. Results are cut off after their 7th man.

WASHINGTON STATE CROSS COUNTRY

1993 AAA BOYS RESULTS

PLACE T.PL TIME RUNNER-YR-SCHOOL

**1 1 14:09.3 Matthew Davis-12-Mead

**2 2 14:46 Micah Davis-11-Mead

**3 3 14:48 Rob Aubrey-12-Mead

4 4 15:05 Andy Clark-11-Decatur

5 IND 15:07 Paul Turner-12-Kentwood*

6 5 15:08 Mike Sherfinski-12-Decatur

7 IND 15:12 Casey LaFran-12-John Rogers(Spok)*

**8 6 15:13 Greg James-12-Mead

9 IND 15:15 Jon Wilson-12-Central Valley*

10 IND 15:16 Wes Arnett-11-Shorewood*

11 7 15:19 Cameron Copher-11-Joel Ferris

12 8 15:21 Zack Ventress-11-Joel Ferris

13 IND 15:21 Eric Delfel-12-Eisenhower*

14 9 15:24 Kris Roof-11-Issaquah

15 10 15:26 Matt Cooper-12-Curtis

16 11 15:27 Kyle Delahunt-12-Kennewick

17 12 15:28 David Schroedel-10-Stadium

18 13 15:28 Pat Ernsberger-12-Kennewick

19 14 15:29 John Anguiano-12-Richland

20 15 15:29 John Hedengren-11-Richland

21 IND 15:31 Scott Paul-11-Eastlake(Redmond)*

22 IND 15:35 Andy Bruno-12-Walla Walla*

23 16 15:36 Scott Kelly-12-Newport(Bellevue)

24 17 15:39 Mike Reeder-12-Kennewick

25 IND 15:40 Steve Glass-11-Cascade(Everett)*

26 IND 15:40 Andy Bestwick-12-Redmond*

27 18 15:42 Matt Buckner-11-Marysville-Pil.

**28 19 15:43 Skiy DeTray-11-Mead

29 20 15:43 Russell Stephens-10-Curtis

30 21 15:44 Vorster Vermeulen-12-Woodinville

31 22 15:45 Jesse Garner-11-South Kitsap

32 IND 15:46 Erik Meyer-12-Port Angeles*

33 IND 15:46 Ryan Peters-10-Edmonds-Woodway*

34 23 15:47 Andrew Sellery-12-Joel Ferris

35 24 15:47 Chris Ledford-12-Woodinville

36 25 15:47 Josh Bigler-11-Curtis

37 IND 15:48 Andy Gist-9-Kent-Meridian*

**38 26 15:48 Cody Enzler-10-Mead

39 27 15:49 Dusty Lybbert-11-Issaquah

40 28 15:49 Steve Mahoney-11-South Kitsap

41 IND 15:49 Jason Polverari-12-Redmond*

42 29 15:50 Mitch Stuard-11-Issaquah

43 30 15:50 Jamie Monroe-12-Kennewick

44 IND 15:50 Ryland Carter-12-Snohomish*

45 31 15:51 David Potter-11-Kennewick

46 32 15:51 Rick Cratsenberg-11-Curtis

47 33 15:52 Casey Hamblen-12-Woodinville

48 IND 15:52 Bill Finn-12-Mercer Island*

49 IND 15:53 Mike Little-11-Olympic*

50 34 15:54 James DeSalvo-12-Issaquah

51 35 15:55 Ramiro Fernandez-11-Kennewick

52 36 15:55 Kyle Mann-11-Richland

53 37 15:56 Jon Cox-12-Kelso

54 38 15:57 Chad Hembrow-12-Puyallup

55 IND 15:58 Joey Corr-9-Eastlake(Redmond)*

56 39 15:58 Mike Loughlin-10-South Kitsap

57 40 16:00 Julian Aguirre-11-Rogers(Puyallup)

58 41 16:01 Dale Macomber-12-South Kitsap

59 42 16:01 Quinn Valenzuela-11-Stadium

60 IND 16:03 Heath Gardner-11-Federal Way*

61 43 16:03 Brian Dalthorp-11-Marysville-Pil.

62 44 16:04 Dana Harper-9-Joel Ferris

63 45 16:05 Jason Moore-11-Marysville-Pil.

64 46 16:05 Eric Allwine-9-Richland

65 IND 16:06 Juan Zavala-11-Eisenhower*

66 IND 16:06 Anthony Shows-12-Bellarmine*

67 IND 16:06 Peter Heggem-12-Everett*

68 47 16:07 Pat Henry-11-Decatur

69 48 16:09 Tom Dance-12-Newport(Bellevue)

70 IND 16:10 Shane Litzenberger-11-Walla Walla*

71 49 16:10 Jake Nist-11-Stadium

72 IND 16:11 Peter Nelson-11-Mountain View*

73 50 16:11 Lewis Matthews-12-Rogers(Puyallup)

74 51 16:12 David Dance-11-Newport(Bellevue)

75 IND 16:12 Geoff Fleming-9-Federal Way*

76 52 16:12 Jason Kaipainen-11-Puyallup

77 53 16:13 Rick Johnson-11-Woodinville

**78 54 16:14 Brian Erickson-12-Mead

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Bennett wrote:

All courses in Texas are 2.9 miles and flat and as for Jesuit...

In all honesty, your 93 Mead team was hands down the best HS XC team ever.

CB

Bennett,

I assume your heard Tyson got the Kentucky coaching job, should be fun to watch. I am keeping an eye on the CBA boys these days as well. They got a shot at jumping up from last year?

Tinman,

What kind of times did you mean? Track or cross?

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Bennett wrote:

All courses in Texas are 2.9 miles and flat and as for Jesuit...

You CANNOT be serious. Go run the Islander Splash or UTSA Invite if you truly belive that....

You are right. I apologize.

Everybody knows the courses are closer to 2.8. I was just joking about the 2.9

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go now wrote:

Yeah, i've heard all about how good mead was and have read of their brutally fast times that year. But what i want to know is, how were these boys training. How much mileage did they run? how many two - a - days did they do? what was their standard weekly mileage totals?

I thought I'd respond to your question with a bit more detail.

Morning runs, most of the top guys ran 2.5 every morning before school. A couple of us would run a bit over 3.

Morning runs were pretty slow and relaxed, on trails.

Afternoon runs were usually pretty relaxed, running and talking/joking. We had been advised by former state champions and a school record holder, that you take your easy days easy when we came in, and we never questioned that. We did however run hills very hard, and the Mead training area was quite hilly. You never went on a run with out hitting some, if not a lot of hills. As I said before, if it was an easy day, we would only push the hills but run the rest of the run very comfortable.

We were told to run an hour on Sundays, I don't think many people quite got there. Back then a 55 minute run alone seemed like a nightmare. During cross season we usually had a workout or race on Saturday, and a workout on Monday so you didn't want to push Sunday too hard.

Most workouts were no longer than race distance and were often fartleks over a soft surface course. Nothing in cross season was time distance measured. Everything was effort based (except a time trial before the state meet).

For example a fartlek of 2-1-:30 fartlek. 2 min hard, 1 min recovery, 1 min hard, :30 recovery, :30 hard, 2 minute recover, and repeat over the distance of the course. Stuff like that. We did repeats in parks where the distance wasn't measured, just approximated based on times over a few loops around. I think a lot of confidence was built through this. No oppurtunity to see failure, just positive thoughts. Tyson was very big into mental power and visualization.

Overall mileage.

James and myself were highest usually hitting around high 40's - low 50's per week, everyone else was about 5 less than that. It was pretty different than what most top 10 teams were doing at that time.

If you have any more questions e-mail me.

Rob