Freshmen-Senior 1600m Prs

Sad to say the improvement stopped early and I want to note that in my freshman year I had a long series of ankle sprains from paper route, a cross country race where I stepped in a hole, and basketball, so I would have run a lot faster, thus making the gains from freshman to senior year even more pathetic. I wish I had known something about training back then.

9th 5:32 (after 5:32 in 8th grade)

10th 5:20

11th 5:06

12th 4:55

Brigham likes em young wrote:

According to BYU, there is no reason at all why you should be faster as a senior than as a freshman. Being older is no advantage at all.

Dumb. There’s a significantly larger improvement between ages 14-18 than 22 to 24.

Freshman— 4:58 (first week of XC practice)

Senior— 4:56 (last meet of the year)

Yep, that’s right folks. Stupid high mileage program led to long periods of injury and/or disinterest.

Fresh 4:52 (might have been faster, can't remember.

Senior 4:19(full mile)

Fresh - DNR

Soph - 4:52

Jun - 4:16

Sen - 4:15 injury

Frosh: 5:19

Soph: 4:52

Junior: 4:24

Senior: 4:39

I'll just do my whole progression.

7th: 5:27

8th: 5:14

9th: 4:42

10th: 4:29

11th: 4:22

12th: NA; got lyme disease in the fall and didn't recover for another 2.5 years. 4:22 was enough for me to talk on to a power 5 D1 team, but I couldn't get healthy enough to keep my spot after redshirting the whole cycle my freshman year.

Much respect to Robby Andrews (and Drew Hunter?) for making a comeback from lyme disease. That crap is no joke.

Mile times

Frosh 4:55

Soph 4:36

Junior 4:20

Senior 4:11

7:xx

6:04

5:28

Senior year I'm Hoping for a 4:55

5:34-4:54-4:36-4:24

8th-8:50, ran it once

9th-6:50

10th-5:24

11th-5:00

12th-4:38

PR-4:13

Master's PR-4:45

pinksock69 wrote:

Frosh: 4:52

Soph: 4:38

Junior: 4:22

Senior: Upcoming (but Ive been injured all of xc and reinjured myself and I still can't run so good chance I won't PR this year );

very sad.

Get on the bike and elliptical if you can, like way more time than you would be running. You can still improve your aerobic capacity and the muscle memory will come quickly.

This is rough for me:

4:45

4:44

4:42

4:40 :(

Ran around 4:30 equivalent in college focusing on 10k and managed to run close to my 3200 pace for 10k

lYmE iS LyFe wrote:

I'll just do my whole progression.

7th: 5:27

8th: 5:14

9th: 4:42

10th: 4:29

11th: 4:22

12th: NA; got lyme disease in the fall and didn't recover for another 2.5 years. 4:22 was enough for me to talk on to a power 5 D1 team, but I couldn't get healthy enough to keep my spot after redshirting the whole cycle my freshman year.

Much respect to Robby Andrews (and Drew Hunter?) for making a comeback from lyme disease. That crap is no joke.

Totally fucked my dad up... he relapsed and had to change his diet to get ride of the systems. It completely wrecked his knees which were already a bit messed up and isn't able to run any more. Definitely easier to overcome for younger people but it can still do a total number on you.

5:03

4:55

4:43

4:25

Trained hard freshman year and was really happy with almost breaking 5. Then trained like crazy soph and junior years but ended up burned out and injured and did not show big improvements. Took until senior year to actually understand how to train properly so I could stay healthy. Lowered mileage, took easy days easier, finally saw the improvement I wanted.

4:39

4:24

4:22

4:13

9th: 6:09, ran it during a baseball team tryout, never ran a lap on a track before.

10th: 5:24

11th: 4:56

12th: Upcoming, but so far I ran 4:52 full mile enroute to a solo 10:19 for 2 miles.

Train smart and have fun wrote:

Freshman— 4:58 (first week of XC practice)

Senior— 4:56 (last meet of the year)

Yep, that’s right folks. Stupid high mileage program led to long periods of injury and/or disinterest.

At least you improved.

8- 5:40

9-5:09

10-4:47

11-4:45

12-4:38

The average improvement for boys is 15 seconds and the average for girls is 7 seconds. We can have every LR poster list their improvement but that will be the average.