So I was wondering what you guess think about this, in the past my coach has coached mostly guys with almost even amounts of speed and stamina. Now however I'm our best guy and I am not even by any means my pr's are 400-53.7 800-2:03 mile 5:00 2 mile 10:40 and 5k 18:20 so as you can see my stamina is lacking, iv'e tried to convince him to let me up the mileage (we do about 20-25 a week) but he tells me I don't need to. So what do you guys think I should do?
You look like a clear 4/8 guy to me, in which case you could be fine on 20-25 as long as you're emphasizing speedwork and not just doing an easy 3 every day. Unless your coach is having you compete in the mile and deuce, which wouldn't make much sense to me.
I actually just ran the 53 400 the other day after the 2:03 (we thought I only had about 55-high 54 speed fresh). I am most likely going to be put in the mile a couple of times this year and we really haven't been focusing on speed stuff mostly 1600 repeats and 2 400 workouts so far. To be honest I don't really want to be a 400 runner mostly because i'm naturally built like a distance runner 5'9 and 130.
Mileage wont hurt and it will improve your mile by a lot. Just build carefully little by little
I'm guessing your in high school and depending on how long your season is I wouldn't suggest upping the milage as it's not going to have the instant benefits that more speed work will have for this season. but certainly in the summer build your milage up to atleast 50 and watch all of your times drop next xc season!
If I do build it up to about 50 and do it properly, what do you think my times will go down to? Btw today I ran the 4x1600,4x400 and 4x800 and my times were 4:54,53 and 2:09
So just judging by that do you guys think I am in good enough shape to go sub 2 right now If I was put into the right race?
Were you trying to run a good time your last race in the 4x8?
I didn't expect the time to be that great and I was just trying to hold the place we were in, I mean it wasn't easy but I wasn't to disappointed with the time.
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So just judging by that do you guys think I am in good enough shape to go sub 2 right now If I was put into the right race?
Aim for a pr
Alright thanks what do you think I should open the 400 in though?
Bump.