help with what to do in college

holy cow! 35-40mpw is your most ever and you're a college kid with a passion for running? Well, the first thing is to keep increasing mileage. Since you have never run very much, I'd only increase it by 5mpw every other week and keep it steady or even back off a little if you ever start to feel overtrained. There's really no way you can be a very good distance runner on anything less than 60mpw, and many would say 70-80mpw. If you're not running on scholarship or anything, you probably aren't gonna want to build up to anything crazy, but 65-75mpw should be doable, especially if you run twice a day.

As for workouts I'd do one long run a week, one long steady state run, and one shorter faster run. The long run should be pretty easy paced but if you feel good you can pick it up a little, just don't hammer. Same thing goes for the SS, except it will be at the high end of easy. The short faster run should be something like 4 miles at your 10 mile race pace, or classic Daniels' "T" pace. Do some strides 2-3 times a week (make sure you're loose), and you should be good to go.

Trust me, if you do all that you'll probably PR at every distance above 800 without even doing any "speed" workouts.

Im a college senior running recreationally at a d1 school for a couple years now. I run local 5k like weekend meets training for some winter race where i hope to peak out. I usually run 50-60 miles a week and its sufficient to dominate most of the races. Whats fun about races in college towns, unless your in a major city, is the demographic of runners. Lots of college kids trying to do things but failing because they suck.

thanks for the advice, can more people bring up my topic please

have you looked into a club team? you might find some people to run with there.

Who needs to run more miles when you can enter small, local races and win by 2+ minutes. In the last 4 races I've beat the next person by a combined 10 minutes!!!! Nothing to boost your ego life beating some 50+ master by six minutes and still average 6:12's! :)

Actually, I am in your exact shoes except I have already done a year of it. Like everyone else said, the more miles the better. However with my schedule it is not that easy to do. I get between 30-40 miles in a week and it keeps me in decent shape. Try mixing things up and running a half or marathon and maybe try entering a track meet in the spring, if you are that fast. Also finding a training partner will help. Last January I decided to run a Half in April and it kept my running going strong. Now I am running another one in December, maybe not the smartest idea to do it in Colorado but it ought to be fun.

One of the great things about not being on a team is that you can concentrate on long-term development instead of short-term race results. Take advantage of that by building up your mileage base over a period of months, without any race-pace running. Let your body adapt to the higher mileage. When you finally return to racing, you will find, at least in the longer distance races, that you have developed the ability to "cruise" at a much faster pace than you could before.

That, at least, is my advice. It worked for me. I never would have developed into a pretty decent runner if I had continued to run according to a team racing schedule.

I'm in your position too, I find it difficult to get over 45 mpw. Speedwork is very hard. Ask the coach if he needs any help with the team or look at the club, my club team is basically nonexistent though. The problem is few people who ran in high school continue recreationally. If there is a local club around you, join that, they may be older but some of them are darn good for being old. But just keep running, going alone gets a little easier over time. You can also run some college meets unattached.