Anyone here run for Johns Hopkins?

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17 years ago 04/07/2007 5:33pm EDT

I'm a college sophomore going to a large state school in New York, I'm transferring to Johns Hopkins for their pre-med program and I'm wondering if anyone who runs there has any information about the team and the way they train. My high school PR's are 4:26 and 9:48. I ran a 15:16 5k on the roads last year and have just been doing basically base work up until now. I looked at some results and they seem to have a few decent guys but not any serious depth, can anyone enlighten me as I'm not sure as to whether or not I want to continue putting forth the effort since I'm not that terribly fast.

17 years ago 04/07/2007 7:09pm EDT

re: mediocre NY Runner

17 years ago 04/07/2007 7:51pm EDT

re: mediocre NY Runner

Hi. I'll be happy to discuss the team with you. E-mail the head coach, Bobby Van Allen, and one of us will be happy to answer your questions.

17 years ago 04/07/2007 8:13pm EDT

re: JHU- Assistant Coach

I ran for the team for a couple of seasons. Had some success but was young and impatient and ended up disheartened with injuries from overtraining.

I don't know if much has changed, but it was a typical 2-workouts-a-week / one long run program for me. Practice was only once a day and the top guys on the team got in around 60-70 miles a week.

Given your PRs you would still have guys on the team to run with. And most of those guys were only 10:10-10:30 3200 guys in high school. I think in the last 10 years only two of the guys on the team have run under 4:30 or 10:00 in high school.

So the system works if you give it a chance.

I still have running logs of my workouts and can e-mail you if you're interested. But like I said, Bobby might've changed things a little bit since then.

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