What's it like competing in women's cross-country at the college level?

Question

What is the distance that college women run? What time is considered competitive and what is training like?

Answer 1

wow Im surprised You got in the top ten of most of your races with times in the 20's..

Answer 2

95% of the time women run a 5k, but there some odd races on occasion that will be like 3.5 miles. The training I found to be almost the same as in high school (but I was training with the guys varsity team in high school) so I would assume that if you were training with the girls your training in college will be a little more difficult in college than high school.

I was running low 20's in the 5k and I was coming in the top 10 every race. The people that were ahead of me were really far ahead of me though, they ran mainly 18's. I hope this helps, good luck

Answer 3

r. loudin?