highest mileage d1 (women's) teams

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50+ miles a week wouldn't be half what some of the highest mileage girls teams like oregon run

What about providence college?

wow

how much do the girls at uva, villanova, princeton, or stanford run?

When I was at Colorado, the women were anywhere between 55-85. No one ran more than 85, and only a few did that. Most were around 65.

girls just want to go run wrote:

wow

how much do the girls at uva, villanova, princeton, or stanford run?

i've heard that villanova runs relatively low mileage. I'm pretty sure they almost all take off one day a week, although do 2-a-days during their highest mileage weeks.

yes, NCAA champ Sheila Reid runs about 50 MPW

There are some runners on Iowa State's team who go over 100 miles a week (Lisa Koll included while she was there). Also, West Virginia university does the same.

Check this thread out:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3969051

whoa thanks that thread looks sweet

wow lisa koll is even more of my hero. what an inspiration!

as for sheila reid, i was expecting her to be really raking in the miles too..

Where is your source she runs 50 MPW? I know someone on the team who has told me she has consistently been way higher than that.

how much higher is way higher?

I think the top Princeton girls run high 70s ish.

when girls run mileage that high, do they get most of the miles on easy days, long runs, and cooldowns, or does their coach make their workouts longer too?

no one on my team runs more than 60 mpw and we all do the same length workouts..regardless of background or current mpw training

You are right. Most of the added mileage is from long runs, cool downs and easy runs. Sometimes the more aerobically fit girl will run one more interval than the other girls or go a little further on the tempo runs.

LH wrote:

When I was at Colorado, the women were anywhere between 55-85. No one ran more than 85, and only a few did that. Most were around 65.

Princeton is about the same.

Her - I asked her, and she told me.

....honestly wrote:

Where is your source she runs 50 MPW? I know someone on the team who has told me she has consistently been way higher than that.

There is a girl with a running blog who graduated from Villanova and ran on their track team. Her training logs seem to be really low mileage yet she has run a 3:03 marathon (training log:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkHXOXYBzRMjdFY0R1psbFFpMnk4QXFXOEF5X2hKRWc&hl=en_US#gid=0

) It looks like she peaked at 70 miles but only averaged z about 49 mpw over the 17-week training period, not including the two lower mile taper weeks. That seems really low to be able to run such a fast marathon for a girl, but her other PRs are nowhere near as fast. It also looks like she took off 1-2 days per week.

You can't compare post-collegiate training habits too much with what she must have been doing as a college athlete, but my guess is that her current training approach reflects success on a lower volume program while at Villanova

for more:

http://www.lindsayruns.com/training/

Iowa State is probably one of the highest mileage teams. Colorado has girls running higher than that (Catrina McCalister ran 90+ in high school).

Sheila Reid runs around 60 miles per week. Abbey D'Agostino tops out around 70, and Jordan Hasay hits in the 80s at the highest (which I think has made her a bit stale).