Cross Country Summer Training Plan

Summer Training Plan

My coach in high school was primarily the soccer coach. If you played soccer in the spring you ran cross country in the fall. We never had established practices over the summer but instead he handed us a training plan and it was up to us to either follow it or fall behind. This is that training plan. 


I know it may be hard to read but it's 16 years old and I found it when I moved houses this winter. I'm sure most coaches are critiquing this which is fine. It's not perfect and it likely won't work for everyone but the intent of sharing this isn't for the coaches that care, it's for the athletes who have coaches that don't. Now, I'm not going guarantee results from if you follow it perfectly and don't bring this to your coach and say "MileSplit said do this." All I can say is we experienced success with it. 

                                ELK RUN VI
                            CROSS COUNTRY MEET
                           4A-5A VARSITY BOYS 5k
          CHISENHALL PARK, BURLESON  SEPTEMBER 2, 2005  10:05 AM

 
Place TmPl No.  Name               Typ School               Time  
===== ==== ==== ================== === ==================== ===== 
    1    1 1460 KHADAR KAKUMA      VB  MARTIN               15:29 
    2    2 1432 ROBERT REED        VB  SACHSE               15:33 
    3    3  580 TRAVIS WESTBROOK   VB  SAN ANGELO LAKEVIEW  15:55 
    4    4  755 JOEY MANNING       VB  MANSFIELD            16:03 
    5      1472 MILES MCDOUGAL     VB  FORT WORTH CHRISTIAN 16:06 
    6    5  968  THORNTON          VB  BIRDVILLE A          16:09 
    7    6 1307 ROMAN ESTRADA      VB  CENTRAL              16:19 
    8    7 1344 JAVIER ERRISURIZ   VB  FOSSIL RIDGE         16:23 
    9    8 1347 MICHAEL OLER       VB  FOSSIL RIDGE         16:24 
   10    9 1461 BRAD LOWRY         VB  MARTIN               16:28 
   11   10 1551 COBY LEWIS         VB  BURLESON             16:32 
   12   11 2127 MARTIN RODRIGUEZ   VB  AZLE                 16:35 
   13   12 1345 KYLE POULSEN       VB  FOSSIL RIDGE         16:37 
   14   13 1233 ANDRES LOPEZ       VB  CROWLEY              16:39 
   15   14  657 FRANK PUGA         VB  WEATHERFORD          16:40 
   16   15 1346 BEN THOMPSON       VB  FOSSIL RIDGE         16:43 
   17   16 1090 CAMILE SANCHEZ     VB  NORTH CROWLEY        16:48 
   18   17 1350 JAY GUARDADO       VB  FOSSIL RIDGE         16:50 

Not bad for a soccer team. 

Good Luck this summer whether you're training alone or with a team. Can't wait to see you in the fall.