Miler question

[njrunner]

How many work outs a week should a Miler be doing in college? (assuming a strong base is already there)
Pre season?
Mid season?
End of season?

[jpac511]

A general rule, from what I've experienced is 2. And that's if you include meets as workouts too

[KenyanInMyMind]

We do 3 for in-season. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday/Saturday meets. Pre-season, get the mileage base back up (assuming you took a week or two off/low mileage after cross). Once you're up in mileage, then start doing workouts, if you have that time.

[Strider]

Originally Posted by KenyanInMyMind

We do 3 for in-season. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday/Saturday meets. Pre-season, get the mileage base back up (assuming you took a week or two off/low mileage after cross). Once you're up in mileage, then start doing workouts, if you have that time.

This was the same thing I did in High School when I thought I was a miler

Pre-season: Base work with hill repeats, fartleks, tempos, etc.

In-season: Monday longer workouts, Wednesday short workouts, Saturday race. though on weekends without a meet we would do a tempo or something.

Late-season: Still did the Monday and Wednesday Workouts, but they were more taper oriented workouts. "Feel good" workouts, stuff just to really sharpen you up.

I know you specified on things Milers would do in college and I replied what with I did in high school... But... I honestly imagine there isn't that much of a difference besides the fact that College milers would be running at a faster clip and they probably have workouts planned to simulate running rounds of prelims for the national meet.

Hope this helps.

[yoshi]

What do you consider a workout?

A lot of guys do a hard 10-12 miler that doubles as their long run and a workout, then 2 workouts during the school week.

[CrossHare]

I'm not a miler but our team does 2 legit workouts and another more strength building one like sled pulls, short hills, stairs, box jumps, etc.

[TeamOrange]

I have had 2 college coaches. One had us doing 2 workouts a week (early season we did some tempos but by mid and end season we were doing 2 speed work outs, one longer than the other)

The other had us doing 3, 1 speed, 1 hill, one tempo. These were non racing weeks and the hill and tempo were a day after one another