will I be able to run competetiviely?

Go out for XC...I was from a smallish school (130ish graduating class) and we always had at least 1-3 guys on our team who were extremely out of shape (literally 30-35min 5k race times) at the start of the year and just worked their way down into the 28s by the end of the year.

For you to start off being able to even run a mile, you're ahead of those guys.

As for your goals...they're completely unrealistic. Sorry, to break it to you but I but it's true.

I'm not at all saying you shouldn't run and train hard...I think you should. You just need to have realistic goals or else you will lose interest very quickly. If you trained smart and were patient you might be able to run 5-flat as a senior and be a great club runner in your 20s...D1 isn't going to happen though.

Cross country is not out of the question. Contact the coach and find out about their summer training. The coach is almost certainly expecting to see tons of out of shape kids show up at practice at some point. You're young and it's only June 1, so with consistent daily running, it's impossible to say what kind of shape you'll be in by August. Good luck.

I concur with the other two replies. Join XC. Get over your shame if you want to get better. Racing is the best way to get fast. You'll push yourself much harder in a race than you ever can while training on your own and this will allow you to improve much more rapidly. Don't worry about placing far back in races. Persist and work your way up.

Also, shame of being slow can be a great motivator for getting fast. Use this to your advantage. I find people who race when they are out of shape to be the most inspiring of individuals. Racing when you are fast is an easy choice, but it takes a lot of courage to race when you are out of shape.

Cjsilverman24 wrote:

eing that indoor season starts in like 6 months, what are my chances of trimming my 1600 time to 5:10ish? Is that even possible? Also, because I got into the game late, does that mean me running at a D1 school, say Indiana, is out of the question even if I have a really great jr and sr Track season? Any advice?

Yes, this is possible if you really push hard on the right kind of training and consistently bring your times down. Because you are out of shape, your times can come down really fast if you really push yourself. You have to have the will and the toughness to really push yourself to your limits every week. If you are training for track, then I suggest you get on the track at least once a week and do intervals at the pace you think you are currently capable of racing at. As that pace becomes easier for you, do intervals at a faster pace that you think you can race at. At the end of each track workout, you should feel absolutely dead, like at the end of a real race or even worse - especially when you are out of shape. No pain, no gain. Expect to get a lot of phlegm build up in your lungs and a lot of daily coughing as you clear that out for the first few months. Expect your lungs to be on fire after every workout and to be barely able to suck in enough oxygen. Expect lots of muscle soreness and do plenty of brisk, but not too intense, running between these workouts to work that muscle soreness out. Only do all-out workouts like this when you are fully recovered from the previous one and try to really kill your body each time you do. Let your body know as forcefully as you can that you really want to improve and it will.

nah. but you could buy a dictionary.

As an example, start with this: Always start out on the track with some slower laps and gradually work up to a faster pace, but not quite race pace. Then at race pace, run one 400m lap, take a rest, perhaps 1:30, then do another 400m, then rest 45 seconds and do a 200m, then rest 45s and do another 200m. Then rest for 5 minutes and do a second set of this. This is to get your body used to the speed that you think you are currently capable of racing at. After two sets, depending on how you feel, try to get in another whole set or just another 400m and then another 200m. Just make sure that you worked yourself to the max and cannot possibly push yourself any further. Then use your performance to design your next workout. You could work to bring down your rest times between intervals to 1 minute between 400s and to 30 seconds between 200s and work to bring down your interval times. Don't push yourself too fast on each interval either because you want to last until the end of the workout. This is middle distance training. You want to work toward running hard - near sprint, without tiring.

Cjsilverman24 wrote:

I plan on running nearly everyday to build my endurance and eventually incorporate speed training into my daily routine.

Do not do speed training daily. Do it when you are fully recovered from the previous training session, which can take a day or two. And I see no reason why you can't start that kind of training right now. You obviously need it. You want to run everyday, but not hard everyday. If you do that, you are never going to be able to run to your best ability on any day. Your hard days should be run when your body is completely fresh and recovered. Easy days are just a shorter comfortable run or two, and perhaps some cross training.

Talk to your HS coach and get some tips. See if the runners are getting together over the summer.

Run XC! The experience will be fun. Plus the training you will get will likely be superior to anything you do on your own.

How fast you can run is impossible to predict.

1. You should run XC this year and you might be surprised, as long as you train, there will be people much slower than you.

2. Never say never but there is a 99% chance you'll never go anywhere near D1. Just saying if that's your motivation, it will not last. You can still be a highly successful runner without running D1; many of the guys winning the local road races didn't run D1 either.

Just get out there and try. No expectations. Enjoy it. See what happens

Contact the coach. Find out about summer practice. Go to summer practice, attend every single day of summer practice. Do it ASAP, now is the time. You will be in better shape by XC season if you do this!

[quote]Cjsilverman24 wrote:

Ik that’s crap

Yup. You’re right. It is. So my answer to your question in the title? NOPE!