u/Historical_Baker1575

My cross country season runs from about early september to early november. How many races would you say you should get in in that time. And how many should be the big focus races and stuff. I see some people race every week and some every few weeks so what is typical.

This year im thinking of running unattached for cross country but my biggest concern is finding big meets that are competitive that you can run unattached at. Does anybody know a good way to find them or have any suggestions. All I could find right now is Great american and then post season races like Nxr.

The past 3 years of HS cross country I barely improved. from 17:50-maybe17:20 pr was right above 17 this season. So during this years track I decided to do my own stuff because I wasn’t allowed to do more than like 45 mpw and we barely did any workouts so it’s basically just 45 mpw of easy running and racing every single week. And workouts were only like 3 miles. Anyways the training I did worked really well. It’s been about 5 months And i’ve dropped to a 15:50 5k straight from 17s and 4:30 mile from not even sub 5. I was running unattached so not participating in my states races. The thing is it’s kind of harder to do that with xc and now I need to get recruited too since i’m going to be a senior. But then if i’m going to be on the team I have to go back to the training which is going to be significantly less than what i’ve been doing for so long which doesn’t make sense. But my fear is I won’t be seen and recruited and it will look bad if I stay on my own plan from a college coaches perspective and I won’t get to race important meets. But then I risk not getting as good so i’m not really sure what to do.