Amount of weekly mileage done by college teams

For one West Coast DII school summer progresses from about 55mi/wk to 90mi/wk for the last 4wks. Average weekly mileage in season varies from about 70 to 95 depending on the individual runner and the point in the season. It's mostly 1 a days plus lifting throughout the season. The long run progresses from 75min up to two hours and back down to 75 min over the season.

DII school that I am at we have different milage depending on the individual. Some run as low as 40 miles a week and others up to 90. As for base sesaon it is usually anywhere from 40-90 again depending on the person. If we want we do two a days on our own and have lifting sessions 2 times a week. Long runs are 90mins-2hrs.

my male runners are complaining about 70 miles per week right now, and say they need one full day off per week.

we have two-a-days twice a week along with daily runs and one day off about every 10-14 days.

any more glimpses of a typical training weeks for college teams?

Base and early season, 70-100. That max mileage decreases as the season progresses.

Like everyone else has said, we ranged from as much at 90-100, to as low as half that.

During the season the mileage dropped back to mid 60's-70's.

thanks.

i may be crazy in a lot of ways, but didn't think so on this.

mid level d2 program with xc only...weekly mileage varies from low 50's to high 80's depending on the person. have had runners at low 40's in the past. have 1 guy currently at 20 a week due to injuries but he does 3 days of cycling and 1 day in the pool to supplement. about half my team runs every day with maybe 1-2 days away from running a month and the other half takes a day off each week.

to: a college coach-could you explain why you do 2 two-a-days a week but you're at 70 total for the week? i'm curious because that's 8 workouts for the week so an average of less than 9 miles/workout. my runner at high 80's does 2 two-a-days some weeks but the guys at 70-75 only do 1 or sometimes zero doubles per week. our long run for that group is 15-18 so maybe that's the difference. just curious.

typical week for us this time of year:

--sun: long easy run; 10-18

--mon: off or short-medium easy run; 0-10

--tues: speedwork; 9-13

--weds: recovery; 7-10, possible double day; 0-7

--thurs: hills; 8-12

--fri: short easy run; 5-7, possible double day; 0-5

--sat: race; 8-13 includes wu & cd

total for the week: 47-95 but nobody maxes out every workout so realistically max is 88.

we maintain mileage through conference. down mileage weeks are dependent on the person, some as frequent as 3 weeks up 1 down, some just maintain consistent mileage up to conference.

top tier westcoast team does 90-140 mpw during the summer, 80-120ish during the season.

a college coach wrote:

my male runners are complaining about 70 miles per week right now, and say they need one full day off per week.

we have two-a-days twice a week along with daily runs and one day off about every 10-14 days.

any more glimpses of a typical training weeks for college teams?

It is this kind of non-sense machismo that drives me crazy about college CC and T&F. With this program sure you will have 1 or 2 that will pan out. The rest will just be detritus. Coaches need to be more creative so that there is individualized training while still maintaining team function. How good will a team be when its 3-7 runners are struggling. I guess you could just continue to insinuate that they are pussies for not sacking up and "doing what the coach says."

For our team I would say the norm is 60-70mpw in XC personally I think it should be higher but this is what most the guys do. The highest guys are usually 90-110 and the lowest around 50-60mi. During the week we usually double twice and have two workouts. Our long run is normally 13mi for most the guys, 16-17mi for higher mileage runners. At this point in the season we do all strength stuff, hills, tempos, etc.

good cross guys went ~100/week for first month or so of the season. included ~17-21 mile long run that often dropped to below 6min pace. either two workouts or one workout and a race each week. workouts were killer--some made races seem like a vacation. one guy did run 120+, but was a national champ in track.

anyone who wants to succeed in distance running, track/X-C, will be running 90-120 miles per week during X-C season and at least 70-80 in the summer build up period. When a guy runs a 24:15 for 8k in a meet in Sept or early Oct., he was obviously 'training' in the summer; not doing 40 mpw, like I did. One regret I have....I never came on in X-C til late Oct and Nov....struggled thru Sept.

i ran for harding university (small d2 school) and in my senior year of xc, we had our top 5 running at least 100 miles a week all the way through september. the highest anyone got during the base season was close to 130mpw and most of us were in the 110 range.

blaznbison24 wrote:

i ran for harding university (small d2 school) and in my senior year of xc, we had our top 5 running at least 100 miles a week all the way through september. the highest anyone got during the base season was close to 130mpw and most of us were in the 110 range.

that's a lot of frickin' mileage

Were you guys any good?

Since most letsrun.com posters average around 120 per week, I would say college runners log near 150+. I love these guys who boast of 140 mile training weeks, racing and winning every workout, and running 28 minute 8K's.

time is flying by... wrote:

anyone who wants to succeed in distance running, track/X-C, will be running 90-120 miles per week during X-C season and at least 70-80 in the summer build up period. When a guy runs a 24:15 for 8k in a meet in Sept or early Oct., he was obviously 'training' in the summer; not doing 40 mpw, like I did. One regret I have....I never came on in X-C til late Oct and Nov....struggled thru Sept.

tell me you are kidding? why on earth would you run more m/w in the season than in the summer, before the intensity starts. noone does that, at least noone successful. and you want to come on in oct/nov, not sept. most runners who come on in sept, run like sh*t in nov. i hope you are not a coach.

i knew a few XC runner a while back who i raced again ran anywhere between 60-80mpw (depending on the person) during the XC season. Off season training was around 90-120mpw again depending on the person. These guys all ran well under 25:00 and a few under 24:30