For me: 50 mpw my senior year (would have been more but I got injured.) Weekly tempo runs at 6:00 pace, weekly long runs of 12 miles or so, and hard intervals for about 8 weeks leading up to our peak race. Generally we followed pretty straightforward Lydiard periodization with a base period, hillwork/max VO2 period, hard interval/racing period, and then our peak race. How does this compare to the various letsrunners out there?
funny - my mom just sent a box out to me with my old hs training logs from the 1980s.
I ran only around 40 mpw, and hammered every interval. So two strikes. Apparently we did no tempos even in xc season - so strike 3.
No wonder I am almost as fast now, 26 years later.
My coach was a miler, so I guess we did miler training. No wonder I burned out senior year. Oh well.
I did about 70-75 over the summer and winter my senior year, 55-60dsuring the season. We would do intervals twice per week, with a dual meet in the middle of the week that we would use as a workout. For intervals we usually did 2-3 miles worth of volume pretty hard, and did shorter stuff during track and longer stuff in XC. We would get together with kids from nearby teams and go longish (8-12) on weekends, unless there was an invitational.
when you reply, put your grad year - I'm curious
XC: 30-35mpw in season
Track: 20-25mpw in season
I ran 35-60mpw during the winter before my sophomore & junior track seasons, 70mpw before my junior xc season and 85mpw before my senior xc season. During junior & senior year I usually supplemented my coaches' mileage in-season to bring me up to around 50mpw, and would stop doubling on my own when championship season started. I ran this much to compensate for my lack of talent, however in hindsight I was over-trained and could have been better off capping my mileage around 50.
Workouts were standard, easy mileage on MWF with longer tempos or hills on Tuesday and an easier workout on Thursday, usually shorter intervals. Long runs were not standard practice, I think the longest we ran in XC was 8 miles, if more than that not by much. Track consisted of very light mileage and hard intervals whenever there wasn't a dual meet. Typical high school stuff.
Sounds like a lot of people were hammering intervals during their high school years. Any thoughts on your high school training looking back?
I graduated in 2002. I liked my high school training; it was fun and I ran some pretty good times.