College Runners Cross Country?

Question

How much do you run ?

Answer 1

This is a day-in-the life with Ohio State's team....http://www.completetrackandfield.com/osu...

All college programs are different but i would highly doubt that any college xc program has their athletes running LESS than 50 miles per week during the summer and some colleges might have their athletes running as much as 100+ in their peak weeks.

Answer 2

Too much. I'm actually in college track but I sometimes see cross country. They run over 15 miles a day. I don't know how they do it...they're all like 120 pounds.

Answer 3

My best friend's cousin says a normal run for him is about 18 or 20 miles. The other day, he said he went for a "short run" and only ran 13 miles, but that's pretty much the shortest distance he'll run.

Answer 4

If you're asking how much you should be running, email the coach you'll be running for and ask for a summer training schedule and what your season will consist of. Each coach is different and has their own techniques, that's the only way you'll know what to do for training.

Answer 5

****.   If you ask me it is about the qualiity not the quantitiy.  I run about 50 miles per week and all of my miles are around 6:00-6:30 per mile and with a tempo at about 5:20 per mile.  If you ask me it is better to do that than to do a million miles a week at 8:00 mile pace.  But then again this is summer base training.