How many miles per week are DI Women running?
How many miles per week are DI Women running?
Depends on the team, but my college team has multiple women who have run/or are running 100+ miles a week. The lowest mileage runners, usually freshmen (or injury prone runners) are around 70-80 miles a week. My team is around a top 50 D1 team, not quite top 30 though we have been in the top 30 in the past and have placed at NCAAs in the past. We have also had some pretty good individuals, some who are doing well at the next level.
like 25 or so.
Literally it runs the gamut from 30-80. There are top DI women's teams doing 5 days of running a week at ultra-high intensity with super-talented runners and getting some results. There are also top DI women's teams running 7-10 times runs a week and doing 60min tempo runs.
That's really working out well for them.I was on a national championship XC team and we were all running between 60-85 MPW. Our highest mileage runner had the worst race, by far.
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Depends on the team, but my college team has multiple women who have run/or are running 100+ miles a week. The lowest mileage runners, usually freshmen (or injury prone runners) are around 70-80 miles a week. My team is around a top 50 D1 team, not quite top 30 though we have been in the top 30 in the past and have placed at NCAAs in the past. We have also had some pretty good individuals, some who are doing well at the next level.
Most people on my team did 45-60 mpw, but this was supplemented with regular pool-running sessions.
Our top runner (top 5 at NCAA cross) only did about 50 mpw tops.
My team was in the 40 to 80 mpw range, with the mid-d runners, freshmen, and injury-prone being at the lower end, and some of the older, pure distance types at the upper end. I would say that the average mileage was high 50s.
I should also mention that almost everyone on the team who has "stuck with" the program have seen improvements. We've had many runners go from average HS runners to respectable collegiate runners. The years we placed at NCAAs, I would be willing to bet that the runners on our team had the slowest HS PRs out of any team at the whole meet. You should know the whole story before you're quick to "dismiss" a team for "running too much."