Can i run in college?

Get sub 18 and you will get on 99.9% of D3 teams.

Geo777 wrote:

Get sub 18 and you will get on 99.9% of D3 teams.

He's also a 17 min kid on easier courses running 18 at Bowdoin and Vanny. Anyways just focus on your track times more because those are the bigger recruiting pulls since courses vary. Best of luck man.

Many D3 teams don't cut.

Thank you man

My girls run Section 1 too. Which course was relabeled 3 mile from 3.08?

Yes, you sound like me when I was your age. But select a school for the education/program that is best for you first. If that school has a team you can be on, great.

Also, all colleges now have nearly uniform web sites where you can find the cross country team's schedule/results and you can simply look up the times of runners at schools you are interested in. With your SAT and GPA, you would be eligible for most schools (which is not, however, the same thing as actually being selected), and the more elite schools have much more money to give for need-based scholarships if your family is not wealthy. And, to repeat what another poster said, many D3 schools don't cut runners who are interested, so be sure to check out the policies of the teams/coaches you are interested in. Good luck!

Male or Female?

If male, it looks like D3 is where you are headed. If female, you are a solid D1 recruit.

croton point park

NYSec1Dad wrote:

My girls run Section 1 too. Which course was relabeled 3 mile from 3.08?

croton point park

VCP ain't no easy course.

Yeah there a number of d2 and d3 schools you'd be able to run on with your current times, you just won't be top 7 on any decent one right away.

Just visit with teams and their coaches and find out where you'd be on their team. Also make sure you actually like the team. If your a top guy or a last place guy, probably don't wanna run there. But make sure you choose academics first.

I was about your ability in HS, although I was probably better at the mile/800, but anyway I worked hard at a smaller D3 program and ended up now as the top guy in XC a few years later. Would 100/100 recommend running in college if you get the opportunity.

Don't mean to jump around here, but you seem to like distance. I was wondering why you are targeting maybe 17. If your not injured, and you feel you can hit 17.....then why not go for it all! You got a year, and then track next year right. Why not plan the months, your phases of training, id your Tempo paces and distances, your easy and hard long run paces etc. Get good coaching. If you go and ask the NY state champion in 6A or 5A or his coach someone is gonna sit down with you and describe their mileage, intervals, phases, peaking etc. Go for 15 not 17. Your lucky I'm not your coach or we would be on an 18 month vision quest. Just throwing it out there.....go for it all or die trying. Take care!

armored wrote:

Don't mean to jump around here, but you seem to like distance. I was wondering why you are targeting maybe 17. If your not injured, and you feel you can hit 17.....then why not go for it all! You got a year, and then track next year right. Why not plan the months, your phases of training, id your Tempo paces and distances, your easy and hard long run paces etc. Get good coaching. If you go and ask the NY state champion in 6A or 5A or his coach someone is gonna sit down with you and describe their mileage, intervals, phases, peaking etc. Go for 15 not 17. Your lucky I'm not your coach or we would be on an 18 month vision quest. Just throwing it out there.....go for it all or die trying. Take care!

Thanks man, my season ends on november 9th and i will sit down with my coach and do this.

Good. For example, the American Fork guys,in Utah start like 3rd week in May after break of the state track meet. Their on a 750 mile demand target hitting like First week Sept. So like 13 weeks to hit 750. So 750 divided by 13 =like 57. First week June working on your Tempo pace targets. Goal is gonna be 15 seconds slower per mile than your fastest 5k on the track. A guy who can run, right now a 15:30 all out on the track 5k in 15:30...so about 5:00 flat per mile=5:15 for like a 4.2 mile tempo. Now you start out slower to get a handle on this, might be 5;40 then you progress to 5:30 then 5:20 then your target of 5:15. Maybe even a negative last mile if you feel good. Easy long run pace is about 20 seconds slower that hard long run pace. So Galen if he runs 5:10 hard long run pace for a 15 miler his easy run long run pace might be around 5:30. Pat Tiernan, in an interview on internet describes a great progression run he likes. Your starting on something like repeat 1000's. Maybe 4, 5 or 6. If you can run now 7:15 per mile for a nine miler then lets determine your easy and hard long paces for now. I better shut up, man I just ramble. Take care of yourself, eat eat, naps all week, recover. Long rests between repeats early on. I have gone as much as 4:45 rests between 1000's early on...with the state champion. Ok Ill shut up. Sorry.