I have am 15 years old and have a 4:40 mile and ~10:20 2 mile on the track. For XC, I have a 16:57 5k (16:30 on the track) I'm not sure what event I should focus on for the future (hopefully for D1 college). Thank you in advance for your answer. :)
I have am 15 years old and have a 4:40 mile and ~10:20 2 mile on the track. For XC, I have a 16:57 5k (16:30 on the track) I'm not sure what event I should focus on for the future (hopefully for D1 college). Thank you in advance for your answer. :)
Just Run, Baby. Focus on the mile/2-mile in track and the 5k in cross. You don't need that much specificity.
Focus on whichever one you want to be better at. Those events are so close together that if you're good at one, you'll be good at the others.
Ok, thank you guys!
Run 3200m for track focusing on short speed work 300-500m and speed endurance, 1200's at date pace. X-C focus on long hills, 1/4 mile or longer if you have hills, long run 10/15 miles, depending on your conditioning and 1600-2400m repeats at date pace with 2-3 minute recovery.
You should train train for both equally because they are equally different from each other. After a few years you'll figure out what's your best event. Although the 3200 isn't run to much at the D-1 level. Food for thought.
Evan939 wrote:
I have am 15 years old and have a 4:40 mile and ~10:20 2 mile on the track. For XC, I have a 16:57 5k (16:30 on the track) I'm not sure what event I should focus on for the future (hopefully for D1 college). Thank you in advance for your answer. :)
Like the others have said just train and you should improve but, I will add that now is the time to focus on bringing your mile time down. If you want to run D1 you need to improve your mile time 20-25 seconds and doing so will drastically cut your 2 mile and 5k times down. Many runners and coaches neglect speed training throughout a program so make sure you're touching on that now.
Right now, you're ahead at the mile and need for endurance development to get a commensurate time at 2M and 5k. With 4:40, you can run 10 flat/16 flat (on the track) as you increase mileage and do longer, faster tempos. But no reason at all to choose one or the other now. The only way to judge would be to see times as shorter distances than 1M to see how much speed you have. But you have plenty of time to develop at every distance.
Evan939 wrote:
I have am 15 years old and have a 4:40 mile and ~10:20 2 mile on the track. For XC, I have a 16:57 5k (16:30 on the track) I'm not sure what event I should focus on for the future (hopefully for D1 college). Thank you in advance for your answer. :)
Just where do you live that meets are still running the mile and two mile ?