Hi LetsRun - I'm a third year college student looking for some training advice for the upcoming cross season.
I've been battling with a hamstring tear for the last 5 months, and am just able to start running again. I'm more of a mid-d guy (4:08 mile last year) but want to get in really good shape to make the varsity cross team in my last year, so I need to get some mega base in before the summer training starts.
Was able to do a little cross training over the winter, but now am able to get some runs in. So I've been running and ellipticalling getting in 100 minutes a day the last week. Hoping to do this for the next couple months so I can jump back into workouts.
Any advice on how I should structure this? I really need to peak for the cross season and make this team. At this point i'm set on foregoing the track season for a huge cross season.