2 Weeks Left in HS Season..... LRC PLEASE HELP!

High School Running Distance

12 years ago 05/04/2012 9:31pm EDT

Hey LRC, I'm a sophomore in high school with two weeks to go until my sectional meet. I trained harder than I ever had this offseason getting up to 80 mpw over the winter. My indoor season was successful and I ran a 4:39 1600 to open up my season. Outdoors so far I have ran an easy 10:11 3200/4:37 1600m double. Unfortionatly I have dealt with achilles injuries and missed most of the past two weeks, however I cross trained pretty heavily. Now I am feeling 100% better, but I need to be ready two weeks from today. I was thinking about just training my ass off the next two weeks and just hope for the best.

Is there anyway I can be ready to drop a PR in two weeks? I am open to trying anything

12 years ago 05/04/2012 9:56pm EDT

re: Tee Money 437

hmm i wouldnt train your ass off for two weeks... you probably didnt lose much fitness, and with 2 weeks to go, you cant gain too much either... id get some easy runs in to make sure you are ok and work out the kinks... maybe a workout 10 days out but imo it isnt worth reinjuring yourself, so i wouldnt do anyhting ridiculous... and a couple days of shorter stuff (200s w/ full recovery) 6 and 3 days out

gl and make sure ur healthy before u start up for the summer

12 years ago 05/04/2012 10:04pm EDT

re: my two cents

For your first week of your last two weeks train pretty hard, however of your feeling like your Achilles is hurting then train easy. After your first week of training really hard, taper the next week right before your setional race. No need to train really hard the week right before your race, especially after coming off an injury. Ao train hard first week and taper the next week. Good luck!

12 years ago 05/04/2012 11:32pm EDT

re: Tee Money 437

80 mpw is a lot for 4:39 / 10:11.

Nothing you can do now 2 weeks out. Training runs, some light intervals, strides and rest. Don't get sluggish before the big race.

12 years ago 05/05/2012 1:35am EDT

re: Tee Money 437

Tee Money 437 wrote:
Hey LRC, I'm a sophomore in high school with two weeks to go until my sectional meet. I trained harder than I ever had this offseason getting up to 80 mpw over the winter. My indoor season was successful and I ran a 4:39 1600 to open up my season. Outdoors so far I have ran an easy 10:11 3200/4:37 1600m double. Unfortionatly I have dealt with achilles injuries and missed most of the past two weeks, however I cross trained pretty heavily. Now I am feeling 100% better, but I need to be ready two weeks from today. I was thinking about just training my ass off the next two weeks and just hope for the best.
Is there anyway I can be ready to drop a PR in two weeks? I am open to trying anything

I've seen lots of guys have an injury "time out" like this and with moderate training / race pace not much more... It is almost classic how often this happens. Injury, few weeks off BOOM, PR!

You CAN Pop a big PR after an injury. (As long as you were off just a few weeks and cross training as you say.)

The rest might have actually helped.

GL!

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