I'm not doing them cus I figure I have 3 months to do them. I'll run a race here and there. I know a lot of other guys are doing workouts already. Is it really necessary?
I'm not doing them cus I figure I have 3 months to do them. I'll run a race here and there. I know a lot of other guys are doing workouts already. Is it really necessary?
Let's say Conference is at the end of October. Right now you have 11 weeks till then. I hope you're doing something besides "just putting in miles". Early/Mid August is a good time to start doing something formal. Probably something strength based, like hills or longer/slower intervals. About 12 weeks seems to be the cookie cutter recommendation for when to start doing workouts.
Alan
By my guess by looking at your name you are from Dubuque Iowa???? anyways where are youg going to college? loras? another d3 school? I tell you what if you want to get torn up by your teammates or hurt yourself choose not to run in the summer. Being an ex-runner and an assistant coach at a college I've seen hs studs try to fake their way through the college season and there are several guys who pay a tough lesson in the first couple of weeks. I've seen 15minute 5k'rs in hs quit in the first month of season because they couldn't handle the mileage. I've seen so many stress fractures, and shin splints because freshmen would go from 0-10 miles a week to 40-100 miles a week in a matter of two weeks. There is always a talented little kid that will make it every once awhile on low mileage but that is rare. If you are a freshmen though you will learn. I trained 40-60 miles a week before my freshmen year of college and I ended up getting torn up in practice and I didn't start getting used to practice until cc nationals in November. By the end of track my legs were so beat up I was ready to quit. College running is so much different and you have so many other things you are dealing with and that is why almost freshmen always struggle off the bat and if they improve on what they did in hs they were either well prepared or they are in a category of a select few.
I guess thats my opinion though and based on my experiences. I'm sure others can probably totally agree or totally disagree.
I would like to know who you are and where you are going to college though since I am originally from Iowa myself.
Good luck getting used to lifting 3 times a week and waking up at 6:00 in the morning to do runs 2-4 times a week depending on your program. Hopefully you don't have to do a 10miler+ in the first couple of weeks.
Former Bearcat wrote:
By my guess by looking at your name you are from Dubuque Iowa???? anyways where are youg going to college? loras? another d3 school? I tell you what if you want to get torn up by your teammates or hurt yourself choose not to run in the summer. Being an ex-runner and an assistant coach at a college I\'ve seen hs studs try to fake their way through the college season and there are several guys who pay a tough lesson in the first couple of weeks. I\'ve seen 15minute 5k\'rs in hs quit in the first month of season because they couldn\'t handle the mileage. I\'ve seen so many stress fractures, and shin splints because freshmen would go from 0-10 miles a week to 40-100 miles a week in a matter of two weeks. There is always a talented little kid that will make it every once awhile on low mileage but that is rare. If you are a freshmen though you will learn. I trained 40-60 miles a week before my freshmen year of college and I ended up getting torn up in practice and I didn\'t start getting used to practice until cc nationals in November. By the end of track my legs were so beat up I was ready to quit. College running is so much different and you have so many other things you are dealing with and that is why almost freshmen always struggle off the bat and if they improve on what they did in hs they were either well prepared or they are in a category of a select few.
I guess thats my opinion though and based on my experiences. I\'m sure others can probably totally agree or totally disagree.
I would like to know who you are and where you are going to college though since I am originally from Iowa myself.
Good luck getting used to lifting 3 times a week and waking up at 6:00 in the morning to do runs 2-4 times a week depending on your program. Hopefully you don\'t have to do a 10miler+ in the first couple of weeks.
Ummm...nothing he said implied that he wasn\'t running, he was just inquiring as to whether it is necessary to be doing WORKOUTS right now.
I usually trained in the summers by myself, and always seemed to run harder than I wanted. However, since you are not racing anytime soon, who cares if you go harder than you want. You should be getting used to being uncomfortable, at least, on every run. I don't believe in 'recovery days' during the summer. You should not ever do an 'easy' 30 minutes, unless you really tore yourself up the day before.
Getting used to the constant stress of medium-hard mileage is the key to developing aerobically, physically, and mentally for a long and demanding xc season.
My workouts would be more like 10 miles @ 5:30 pace or some long hills after a 90 minute run....not 8x1000 meters or anything. Get used to the stress of week after week training, not the stress of a ball-buster workout during the summer.
galen rupp hasn't even started base training yet from xc... and others are doing workouts already? well, lets see who finishes higher at the ncaa meet...
10 miles at 5:30 pace?!?! I'd consider myself a solid DIII runner but consider that a little bit of a ball-buster.
Not unless you want to race well this fall. Go ahead and take the summer off, enjoy your time away from school.
Ha.
There are many programs that do nothing but mileage during the summer.
Still, it's not a bad idea to add in some tempo runs and hill repeats, depending on when your track season ended and how many weeks of mileage you now have under your belt.
I think a lot of you guys misinterpreted this. I'm running 75-80 miles a week (also I'm not a freshmen). I am at a D3 school but not in iowa (new jersey actually). Usually we are nationally competitive so if all goes well my season ends in Ohio in November, not at conferences. I'm just wondering if evryone else is doing tempos and fartleks and stuff, because I myself haven't started.
What have you done in the past? You really needs to do what is best for you and your body. Running alone I find it almost impossible to get in longer tempo running and as a result I cut it short and feel shitty about it. If you are feeling fresh, go a little faster, if you get to a hill and feel good, surge up it. Chances are your team will start training in a week or two so you will get in workouts soon enough.
Good luck this season,
LMLOVEDATE
bump. I want more answers
A former DII runner myself, our team usually had an official training camp the first week of september, with scheduled workouts. Our coach though, generally had us do a mile/2000m repeat session, on our own, the last week in August.
I generally felt that I still had some gas in the tank at the end of the season, especially with a good taper. (I also ran around 70-80 miles a week the latter part of my college career.)