High School Coaches: How reasonable is this plan?

add strides, so they don't look like typical wild legged, alligator armed high schoolers. mileage is good.

I believe in drills and strides after as many runs as possible. Sorry for leaving that out.

My high school coach asks me for advice, but he never listens. I am an accomplished runner even though I have been injured for almost a year. All the kids ever do is 8 mile long runs, 3 x mile and 8 x 400. It amazes me I improved throughout high school looking back.

If anyone could give me tips on the best way to deliver my advice such that he listens that would help.

You've listed distances, but failed to identify intensities, rest intervals, and what phase these workouts might fall within (Base, Pre-Comp, Comp, Peak, etc.).

Start with explaining your overall philosophy of what phases would constitute a complete training cycle and what you expect would be accomplished within each cycle. Then maybe pick one of those phases and provide workout plans for two weeks, but include the distances, intensities, rest intervals and how they relate to the purpose of each workout.

Be sure to also explain how you would address strength training, flexibility, nutrition, and the mental side of racing/training in each phase.

...or you could pick up a copy of Daniels' book for Christmas.

8000m of threshold work is a lot for 45 miles a week.

gerataega wrote:

8000m of threshold work is a lot for 45 miles a week.

Exactly what I was thinking. Cut it in half and you have yourself a nice pre-season threshold workout.

this plan is similar to one I used last year for my HS athletes. 1 hill session a week, 1 week short, the next week long, plus tempo or cruise intervals once a week. It worked for my distance guys and 4x8 team