<p>As a runner for a D1 program, I'm starting to feel the pressure of training grinding against my study time. In high school I trained on my own (my schedule didn't allow me to run) yet I was able to easily put up 65-75 mile weeks from 10-12th grade-in the school year. I only competed in local 5ks and 10ks and with those times I was able to get a walkon tryout for the 800 and mile which I currently run. I ran 70 mpw during XC season (I didn't compete) and am doing about 75 now. Practices are riddiculous because of the intensity me and the other frosh push each other, considering we're dropping our top 4 milers this year due to graduation. I'm currently running a 4:19 mile and a 1:54 800m but am working towards a sub 4:12 and 1:51.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering what strats any other athletes are using, frosh or not, to cope with the training and the studying. I've always been a student first and foremost-I'm taking 18 hours this term with 12 of those being senior level courses. But yeah...any help would be great.</p>
<p>I'm applying to upper tier schools as a transfer this year as well. If anyone has information on training and competing and studying in those types of schools I would also greatly appreciate that.</p>
<p>i also run for a D1 school. it can get pretty intense combined with studying, but i think i'm managing it alright. it helps that our distance program isn't all that impressive, so it's not as stressful as it could be. but i think serious athletics provides a good balance to serious academics. if it becomes unmanageable, academics definately come first for me, so i'll have to cut back on the running.</p>
<p>When do you guys run and is it mostly straight distance of do you do some tempos also? I agree with your stance on academics first, though. It's just that it's pretty cool for me to be part of this type of group.</p>
<p>My son is a varsity athlete (team sport) at an Ivy. The athletic committment and the academic committment is mindboggling. I've heard many coaches talk about being a successful student athlete. The primary message is balancing the tripod of studies, sports, and social life. According to these coaches, you can do two of three well. Your choice!</p>
<p>we do 4 to 5 days of straight distance a week and usually 2 tempo or interval workouts a week, with some medium days mixed in with the distance. it's definitely more mileage than i was used to in high school, but less than other D1 schools. Our practices are in the afternoon, and I have class during practice two days a week, which makes it harder. I have to run workouts on my own pretty often.
what schools are you looking to transfer to? ivy levels?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'll be running distance at Princeton next year and am wondering many of the same things. I don't really have trouble balancing academics, athletics and a social life now, but am not sure what is going to happen in college...</p>
<p>I'm a former track and field athlete (long jump/triple jump) and now I'm playing D-I football since the track team got cut (it's coming back in 2008/2009, though).</p>
<p>This is my first season playing collegiate football and it is hands down the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. I was always told that track was harder than football, blahblahblah, but nothing I ever did in track compares to the hell I've been going through these past few weeks in spring training. </p>
<p>Luckily, I'm getting back into shape (I hadn't run since our conference meet last May) and my speed is back to about where it was (timed 40s tomorrow; hoping for a mid-to-high 4.4x at this point) so it's not necessarily the running that's killing me, it's just the intensity of it all.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about transferring to Cornell, Chicago or Washu where my times comfortably put me in the top two runners. But yeah...what I really hate about it this year is that I'm often training by myself.</p>
<p>Silver, if you're running TRACK, I would recommend taking a harder load first semester rather than second. If you're running XC, definitely ease up first semester a little bit, i.e. 12 v. 15 credits or something comparable. If you plan on running both, stay eased up on the first semester because the VAST mileage you accumulate during XC season will help you do well in track.</p>
<p>Also, silver, if your times are fast, then Ivy league athletics (track) isn't that bad. Harvard and Cornell have relatively good teams. I'm not sure about Princeton but the others are merely so-so.</p>
<p>Princeton is taking in one of my buddies next year. 4:11 miler/8:59 two miler.</p>
<p>Right now one of my good friends is high jumping for them (6'10.25"). I guess the team isn't too bad, but I don't know who else is on the team. My "mentor" went there four years ago (he's a senior now) running 48.2 in high school in the 400 (and a New England meet record 34.72 in the 300) and ended up never improving, which I hear happens to a lot of their athletes. I believe he quit sophomore year.</p>
<p>The conference as a whole isn't great, but there's some stellar individuals out there - unfortunately they're mostly concentrated at Penn :p</p>
<p>To the original poster, I'm a senior in high school and ran a 4:38 for 1600 last year as a junior. You may want to try looking at the message board on this site:</p>