good racing weight for xc

I'm 5'6 and trying to hit 113. You should do the same

5'5 120, 130 if you have more muscle, 110 if you have less muscle.

Haile Gebrselassie is 5'4.5 and 119, Bekele is 5'6 and 123.

Both are lean yet somewhat stocky for runners, so I think ~120 is a good start.

Don't diet, just eat healthy and run over the summer. Dieting to try to reach a certain weight could mess you up now and in the future.

A good weight for you is 136, because you're thinking about this backwards.

Your BMI is in the normal range. You don't give your age, but you sound like a 15-year old male. If you reduce your intake of what your body needs as a teenage athlete - calories and nutrients - your times will get slower and you will get injured.

Turn the question around. Instead of "How fast can I run if I lose weight?", the question is: How will your weight change if you run faster times in XC?

If you raise your mileage this summer and do all the other things that smart XC runners do, maybe your weight will drop, or maybe it will rise (because you're a growing teenage athlete), or maybe it will stay the same. And that will be the ideal racing weight.

Save this dieting crap for when you're middle aged and slow. Throw away your scale. Just get out there and run, man.

used to be 5'5 140 wrote:

5'5 120, 130 if you have more muscle, 110 if you have less muscle.

Haile Gebrselassie is 5'4.5 and 119, Bekele is 5'6 and 123.

Both are lean yet somewhat stocky for runners, so I think ~120 is a good start.

5-4, 119 & 5-6, 123...stocky??? More like 5-6, 160 would be stocky in my books (my size). But you wouldn't find a world class runner, let alone an elite that clocked in a 5-6 & 160 or so 🤔.

It's probably good to be on the heavier side because I think it probably means you're less injury prone than someone like me who is 5'8" and