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Tldr: I dont love the prescribed training by my captains but also want to show support and workout with the team

Just to preface my coaches dont give a summer training plan because the say that they want to grow our training skills.

This summer I have been running 50-55 mile weeks with very little quality which I get in tempos weekly. Meanwhile practice run by the captains have started and the captain has provided a couple of pre planned weeks. These weeks include three or four workouts including 10x30 second sprints with a mile wu and cd and 3 mile tempos. These weeks also include usually two easy days consisting of 6-8 miles. These weeks usually come out to about 25 weekly miles which is half of what I have been doing prior. I have thought about doubling but I’m scared that all the speed work they’re doing will get me injured. That brings me to my main question. What should I tell my captain? Should I tell him I’ll show up before the practice to talk to the team and then do my own thing?

Natty Sam Sulek wrote:
Tldr: I dont love the prescribed training by my captains but also want to show support and workout with the team
Just to preface my coaches dont give a summer training plan because the say that they want to grow our training skills.
This summer I have been running 50-55 mile weeks with very little quality which I get in tempos weekly. Meanwhile practice run by the captains have started and the captain has provided a couple of pre planned weeks. These weeks include three or four workouts including 10x30 second sprints with a mile wu and cd and 3 mile tempos. These weeks also include usually two easy days consisting of 6-8 miles. These weeks usually come out to about 25 weekly miles which is half of what I have been doing prior. I have thought about doubling but I’m scared that all the speed work they’re doing will get me injured. That brings me to my main question. What should I tell my captain? Should I tell him I’ll show up before the practice to talk to the team and then do my own thing?

3-4 workouts a week?? 25 miles per week??? Do your captains actually have any clue what good Summer training is?

The summer is about building a base and that’s why you USUALLY don’t see high school athletes doing things like repeats over the summer. I’m all for throwing some tempos or fartleks into the weekly Summer rotation, but 3-4 workouts a week goes well beyond excessive and is bordering on plain stupidity. The general rule of thumb is 80-20. 80% of your runs easy and 20% hard. So spending the majority of your week doing workouts is just insane.

Everything I’ve ever been told by the coaches I’ve had has been this “The summer is about building mileage and your aerobic base”. The summer is meant to act as you increasing mileage, keeping the runs easy, and building up that aerobic fitness so you can go into the season and crush some workouts with a good base under your belt. If it were me, I would talk to the captains and explain to them your situation. Just explain to them that you personally perform better off higher mileage and you don’t think your body could handle that many workouts in a week while also maintaining your higher mileage.

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