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Training Advice/Discussion 5k/10k

9 years ago 07/03/2014 12:59pm EDT

Okay, so my name is James and I'm 5'10 and 153 pounds and run xc and track. i'll be a junior this year and I'm kind of curious if I drop down to 135(my weight) that I can become faster. My pr in xc last year was 16:05 and i was about 145, I've grew like almost two inches since then so yeah. i want to run 15:30 or below this year but I'm kind of curious if my weight will let me do that. I wanna lose the weight but I have sleepovers or go to sleepovers like every night, so it's really hard to lose weight when you stay up late and eat pretty bad. I hardly eat anything till about 12 or even later. I usually drink a cup of coffee in the morning and that's usually what holds me to maybe lunch at 3 or even later, maybe later. I'm just curious though if I get down to 135, that I can become that much faster. Any thoughts? Thx. Btw, if you can, can you give me some tips to losing weight? Thx again.

9 years ago 07/03/2014 1:00pm EDT

re: xcbro209

I stopped reading when I read this:

"I've grew like almost two inches since then so yeah."

9 years ago 07/03/2014 4:48pm EDT

re: Benghozy

Benghozy wrote:
I stopped reading when I read this:
"I've grew like almost two inches since then so yeah."

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9 years ago 07/03/2014 6:41pm EDT

re: xcbro209

xcbro209 wrote:
Okay, so my name is James and I'm 5'10 and 153 pounds and run xc and track. i'll be a junior this year and I'm kind of curious if I drop down to 135(my weight) that I can become faster. My pr in xc last year was 16:05 and i was about 145, I've grew like almost two inches since then so yeah. i want to run 15:30 or below this year but I'm kind of curious if my weight will let me do that. I wanna lose the weight but I have sleepovers or go to sleepovers like every night, so it's really hard to lose weight when you stay up late and eat pretty bad. I hardly eat anything till about 12 or even later. I usually drink a cup of coffee in the morning and that's usually what holds me to maybe lunch at 3 or even later, maybe later. I'm just curious though if I get down to 135, that I can become that much faster. Any thoughts? Thx. Btw, if you can, can you give me some tips to losing weight? Thx again.

Get off his back ya snarky scumbags.

Speed increases with decreased weight - that's a given. But at a certain point you begin to underperform becaase you're eating so little to maintain the low weight, your can't recover as quickly, or worse recovery incompletely and end up with stress fractures etc. You're young so you have that on your side, but it's not foolproof.

I can guarantee you the fact you get by on eating so little is because you're young. That doesn't make it healthy, and a good base in both earobic capacity and speed takes a long time to develop. So you're drawing from the bank now and will have to pay it back later.

You probably won't take this advice because I wouldn't have back then, but eat more good food (fresh fruit, veggies, you know the drill) and run loads. Your body will choose its own optimal weight.

9 years ago 07/03/2014 7:22pm EDT

re: xcbro209

xcbro209 wrote:
i want to run 15:30 or below this year but I'm kind of curious if my weight will let me do that.
I wanna lose the weight but I have sleepovers or go to sleepovers like every night, so it's really hard to lose weight when you stay up late and eat pretty bad.

Those two statements are pretty at odds. If you cared about running 15:30 you wouldn't be going to sleepovers and trashing your body regularly. Partying once a week isn't going to kill anyone, but if you are going crazy every night...that's going to really impact your training.

As to whether your weight will allow this...you never know. If you have fat to lose, and lose it intelligently you will certainly get faster. How much faster can't be said, but a general rule of thumb is 1-2s per mile speed increase per pound of fat lost. The downside is if you go too low you start suffering from issues with injuries, not recovering from workouts/runs, etc. and end up performing worse.

9 years ago 07/03/2014 7:28pm EDT

re: xcbro209

xcbro209 wrote:
Okay, so my name is James and I'm 5'10 and 153 pounds and run xc and track. i'll be a junior this year and I'm kind of curious if I drop down to 135(my weight) that I can become faster. My pr in xc last year was 16:05 and i was about 145, I've grew like almost two inches since then so yeah. i want to run 15:30 or below this year but I'm kind of curious if my weight will let me do that. I wanna lose the weight but I have sleepovers or go to sleepovers like every night, so it's really hard to lose weight when you stay up late and eat pretty bad. I hardly eat anything till about 12 or even later. I usually drink a cup of coffee in the morning and that's usually what holds me to maybe lunch at 3 or even later, maybe later. I'm just curious though if I get down to 135, that I can become that much faster. Any thoughts? Thx. Btw, if you can, can you give me some tips to losing weight? Thx again.

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