How many miles should one run over the summer for cross country in the fall?

Question

In all honesty, I only just decided to do cross country.

There are only about two weeks until it starts, so how far should i run daily just to get in the groove of things?

I am not too good at pacing.

Most meets are 3 miles, but practices are generally longer, right?

I ran the 1600 before, but not cross country.

Is two miles a day enough?

Answer 1

Yeah, my friends and I ran about 1.6 miles per day during the summer. Today was the first practice and we had to run 5 miles and I did it without stopping. 2 miles is good practice for practice take a couple days off during the week too.

Answer 2

no...

you should run about 5 or 6 miles a day to be an awesome runner...this would be to build endurance...then if your school has practices to do different things to do like 400s and stuff...

Answer 3

My coach had our varsity athletes run 500 miles over the summer and 400 for the JV

I said "See you at track!"

He's a good coach, I would recommend somewhere in there. Stretch well and run on grass :)

Answer 4

You need to start at 2mi per day and work your way up to around 5 or 6 per day, however many miles you can run between 7:00 and 8:00 per mile. Six days a week.

Answer 5

for now but like one week before xc run 3-4 miles a day because they wont just start u off at 5 miles they calculate ur mile time and decide how far you run by 1 month in to practice it will be smooth sailing

Answer 6

No thats not nearly enough. First off all why would you run less then what the actual race is. The race is 3 at the hardest pace you can go and you want to train 2 miles a day a comfortable pace, its just not gonna work. Start out with 2 miles a day for the 1st couple or day(just because your a new runner). Get used to that and then startpicking it up. I am on the Sophmore team at my school and we do 12-14 miles as are long runs and 5-6 on our short days with other things like tempos and hills thrown in. Just keep ramping up your milage and you'll get better. Good Luck.