By munzir04 on Apr 20, 2008 | Reply

I think that is ok!!!

By K0R34N-B0l on Apr 22, 2008 | Reply

running wont hurt you as long as u dont go over ur limit
people have their own limit so..haha
running is good^^
i run like 3 miles a day and ii’m a freshman

By richard t on Apr 23, 2008 | Reply

I think you should ask your coach,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

By Teryn M on Apr 24, 2008 | Reply

keep doing the samething you were dooing in cross country. you want hurt yourself if you keep running it will only make you better. try to do jus miles so u will be in shape for next year.
its always good to run, its bad to stop.

but if trying to run a half marathon ad a mile every week, like this:

week 1

mon-5miles
tues-5
wed.-6
thurs-6
fri-7

week 2

mon-6
tues-6
wed.-7
thurs-7
fri-8

jus ad a mile a day a week

By K C on Apr 26, 2008 | Reply

The worst risks for runners are doing “too much, too soon” by starting back up too quickly after taking a break. Since this isn’t applicable, though, you probably run the greatest risk of simply doing damage to your legs, knees and ankles. However, if you primarilly run on even, relatively soft surfaces like athletic fields, instead of hard surfaces like asphalt and sidewalks or sloped hills and uneven terrain, you minimize the chance of injury by minimizing the strain on your legs when running.

Another option would be to take up bicycling or another form of excercize less straining on the knees and ankles. But you’re you yet, so it’s more something to worry about twenty years down the line.

By Runner_4_Him on Apr 26, 2008 | Reply

running 3-4 days a week will keep u in shape over the winter. unless ur doing indoor track don’t do too much. u also could see if ur coach has a winter program for u to do.

By boo on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply

i think that’s good. as long as you don’t feel fatigued all the time and doesn’t have any injury. but i think you should at least take a week to two weeks off.
what i did btw track and xc season was i ran every 3 days for two weeks before xc summer training started and i felt pretty good.

By ?marcy? on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply

don’t run too much!! you will probably burn out. i’d say that you should run maybe 5 times a week. some of those runs should be slow runs, and some should be shorter faster runs.
it’s great that you want to stay in shape but running can be hard on your knees and shins.
definitely run, but not too much…..
good luck and have fun with running!!!?

By John on May 2, 2008 | Reply

40 miles a week is pretty good. You don’t NEED more than that for a 5k. If you decide to run 10k’s you will need more distance. My advise would be to just stay in the distance NEEDED. Remember that when you are running a lot of distance you are not doing speed work and not working on that speed to lower you time.

By blah on May 4, 2008 | Reply

As far as I can tell (and i have to guess because you didn’t expressly say any of this) you are a freshmen male, probably about 14 or 15 years old, wondering about winter training between cross country season and track season.

15-20 miles is most likely fine. You should not get hurt from overtraining with that. A lot of runners also tend to do cross training (swimming, lifting, etc.) during the winter due to the weather and as a way to break up the constant running. See if you can get some teammates to do winter training with you.

In regards to the half marathon, check with your coach. Some states have rules about competing in road races. As the half-marathon is not competed in any high school event, you should be fine. However, there could be a problem if is during the track season.

Finally, 40 mile weeks are not “super intense” for high school boys cross country. That should be your bare minimum this summer as your base training. Once you start clearing 80 miles per week, you can call yourself super intense. Though a good training plan at 50 mpw will trump a bad one at 80 mpw.

Good luck.