Losing Base - How long?

Bump. Anyone?

Don't worry about the mileage, I was in the same situation as you last year. I was a high school senior who wanted to break 10:00 for 3200 in outdoor but I was injured through the middle of October. I seriously was not concerned with mileage and worked on my speed during outdoor, running 1000's and 1600's on at most 20 miles per week and 2 interval sessions (nothing longer than 800m intervals). Although I ran a 4:41 1600 indoors my best 3200 was 10:38. In outdoor I did 40 miles per week at most but I did a 4-mile tempo run once a week (got it down to 23 flat when I was in top shape) and did no other workouts than dual meets twice a week for a month in April (800 in 2:10 or so, 1600 just under 5 and then 3200 in 10:40-10:50). I believe running the 1600 at the correct pace was all the training I needed for a good 3200. When the dual meets died down I did a few 4x800 workouts, the best being at 2:26 average with a minute rest. In May I raced an open 3200 for the first time and PR'd big time in 9:53, with a 4:33 1600 a day later. My advice: don't be too worried about the mileage, get the 1600 down to 4:40 indoors if you can, just stay healthy, and do the tempo run as well as turn your outdoor dual meets into workouts.

Good idea. I'll use my dual meets for workouts once track comes along. What kind of injury did you have in October?

We don't have indoors in California.