I have never run track before and am thinking about running next year. My pr is around 17:45 and my goal is sub 16:30 next year. I was wandering if track will help achieve this goal. Also what times are needed to run at a decent d2 school?
I have never run track before and am thinking about running next year. My pr is around 17:45 and my goal is sub 16:30 next year. I was wandering if track will help achieve this goal. Also what times are needed to run at a decent d2 school?
Yes, track will help a ton. Improving your anaerobic speed 400-800 will help you get a better kick and a faster 2Mile helps a lot. College coaches look at track more then XC anyway because XC courses can always be questioned. you can't fake a fast track time.
What times would be needed for scholarship money?
If I do run track what should my goals be?
Bump
yes, track will help tremendously. year round training is the only way to reach full potential. also it will help you work on general speed.
and based on my experience, you should be able to reach very low 10's for the two and 4:50's to high 4:40's for the one
Thanks
If anyone could give me times need for scholarship money that would be greatly appreciated
Yes run track
yes
Does anyone know what times I need to get to receive scholarship money at the d2 level?
It all depends on the level of D2. At the top, you would need D1 comparable times, but at the mid to low level anything under 4:50, 10:20, and 17:00 would earn some sort of a scholarship.
Seems odd that a school would have money lying around for 4:50 milers.
I sincerely doubt it. Maybe in the 4:20's and under...
if you're looking to have a monster XC season, I'd consider not running track. Depends on what sort of track distance coach you have & the type of training he/she would have you doing. There are a good many clueless asst. football coaches out there coaching track distance runners. If that's the case at your school, you're better getting in a really solid block of training over the winter/spring, rather than being overraced & improperly trained by some knucklehead coach.
don't rely on running to pay for college. Scholarships are very limited for those schools that still have track programs and those scholarships are for track and CC at most schools. I would imagine for a partial scholarship at D1 schools you should be running 15:30s or better with sub 4:20 and sub 9:40 potential.
My xc coach is also the distance track coach