How many mpw did you run in HS and what were your PRs?

Pre-internet years (early 90's)

25-50 miles a week, probably closer to the 30 mile range on average. Only ran 50 mpw for a short stint before my senior year of track and nothing fancy, essentially just going out and running 7 miles a day.

Maybe ran 10 miles or more only 3-4 times all through HS. Did not run XC my frosh year (football). Had a different coach all 4 years in track and a different coach for XC (though he was our coach all 3 years). None of these coaches were runners (football/basketball/baseball).

No one in our family ran, we just fell into the sport by running track in middle school. Small rural town, no body ran.

No summer/winter running program and besides our senior year milage was fairly pathetic and very inconsistent.

1:59

4:20

9:19

mile 4:52

1500 4:36

17:17 5k

36:10 10k

3:07 marathon

30 miles a week

no,not a girl

Maybe 30mpw all 4 years during season and 15mpw out.

4:21 mile

1:58 800m

16:30 5k

Ran a 2 mile once 9:58

When Bannister was 17 he ran a 4:24 mile based on training 3X30 minutes per week. On a slow cinder track as well!

Averaged 40mpw senior year.

53 point (relay)

2:00

4:20

9:15

15:40 (track)

30-35 MPW I hit 40 once during season

Mile: 4:48

2 Mile: 10:32

5k XC: 17:03

Now a college sophomore running 60-70mpw and my 8k PR is my high school 2 mile pace.

800m, 1600m, 3200m

9th grade - 25-30 mpw (2:31, 5:43, 12:56)

10th grade - 40 mpw (2:26, 5:16, 11:07)

11th grade - 45-50 mpw (2:10, 4:39, 9:58)

12th grade - 65-75 mpw (2:09, 4:34, 9:45)

I did soccer in the fall every year.

9th~10-15mpw: 400m (55.3)

10th~10-15mpw: 400m (52.9)

11th~15-20mpw: 400m (50.6), 800m (1:54)

12th [new coach]~did 35-40mpw in the winter for the first time and then 30-40 during the season: 400m (50-51), 800m (1:54), 1600m (4:26) {only ran 1}

as much as 70-80 max and my pr's were:

2:00

4:18

9:12

12:50 VC park

15:50 VC Park

16:09 Holmdel the grassy course.

Freshman Cross Country only:

60-70MPW

1600m- 4:58 (practice)

3200m- 11:01 (practice)

5k-17:52 (consistently around 18 flat on multiple courses)

Quick improvement but couldn't sustain high mileage at such a young age. Got a stress fracture and every comeback attempted in HS led to a rush back to unsustainable high mileage, three time trials a week, etc. School's program really sucked but I guess that's not what you asked. ;)

avg. 16-22 mi/week

9:37.30 for 3200m

karpopper wrote:

mile 4:52

1500 4:36

17:17 5k

36:10 10k

3:07 marathon

30 miles a week

no,not a girl

Yea apparently only ppl who were 4:30 milers in HS post on these threads.

I did ~30 mpw for 3 yrs in HS and ended up with a 5:20 mile. (Male)

55/60 mpw

1:57

4:18

9:17

15:05

Freshman 20 -> 40 mpw, guessing:

2:08 880

4:39 mile

9:50 2-mile

Soph. 70->90mpw

1:59 880

4:19 mile

9:18 2-mile

Junior 80->100mpw

1:58 880 (Rarely run)

4:14 mile

9:08 2-mile

(hurt at end of season)

Senior 90->110mpw

1:55 800m (rarely run)

3:55 1500m

8:18 3000m

A lot of the mileage was long and slow, but we did pick it up from time to time. I ran lower mileage in college.

70 mpw

15:34 5k

9:13 3200

4:08 1600

1:53 800

30-40 MPW in season--if you include warm up and cool down. Take those out, probably more like 25-30 MPW.

5:09 Mile

10:20 Two Mile. Slow but steady. Didn't run the mile much because I was the fourth guy on the team--but the second best two miler. I suspect I could have run the mile faster-but didn't get too many swings at it.

From Western Colorado-so all of these were run at 6000 feet plus.

And one more thing--I've been to a high school cross country meet. Unless it's the state meet, I generally don't need two hands to count the kids that break 17:00. Yet I read this site and read about dozens of 4:20 milers and 15 and change 5K runners.

Either this website is the greatest collection of high school studs ever assembled, or the greatest collection of bull shitters.

30 mpw

47.5 (split)

1:52.2

4:07 (1500 from freshman yr)

I probably ran 20-25 miles freshman/soph year

35-40 junior year

I ran 2:01/2:37/4:38 (1600 split)/17:34 5K (really fast course)

40-45 senior year/50-55 mpw in the summer

I ran 1:59 (split)/2:34/4:27 mile/17:04 5K (moderate course)

Internet (Dyestat/LRC) really helped me as did my coaches as I reframed what I could do, and also developed a passion for the sport. I played tennis sophomore year, and my best mark was an outlier 2:49 1000 and a mid 18s 5K that year.