"Here I sit head on hand" and can't believe i am running slower than i did in high school. hopefully, the things will turn around. Has anyone had such experiences? I feel as if i wanna quit.
"Here I sit head on hand" and can't believe i am running slower than i did in high school. hopefully, the things will turn around. Has anyone had such experiences? I feel as if i wanna quit.
Well....a lot of factors can play into that. Did your training change a ton? Did it get easier? Probably a lot harder?!? I would imagine. Sometimes, an increase in training tires a person out and it takes them a decent amount of time to adjust, sometimes a year. Keep going at it and if you really love the sport you won't give up.
yeah man it happens to everybody.
your dealing with all kinds of new stress, a VERY significant increace in race distance, and i would guess much harder training.
also i think , well at least for me, part of the reason you feel slow is due to everyone around you being so much faster.
oh yes one more thing, this may just be my opinion but i think there are a lot of high school XC courses that are a good deal short, this i think is ALOT less common in college.
anyway the freshman season is always tough, hang in there man
I got the same thing going on. It's hard to do, but it'll get better.
Use your freshman year as your adjustment year. Most freshman need that year to adjust to the increase in miles and intensity, college life, etc. Keep inching the miles up, keep trying to keep up with the upper classmen, and you body will eventually adjust to the increased training stimulus. If you are not an injury prone runner, red shirting your freshmen year is a good idea. If you train right, your senior year you will be faster and at a much higher level.
That is if you are training more than you did in high school. If you arent, well maybe that's the problem.
Train patiently. Aerobic development takes time and sometimes years. Keep the eye on the carrot. Look long term, not in terms of just this season.