Distance running is a year round sport. You train all summer long to be in peak shape for fall cross country season. After cross country ends in late November, runners take about a week off before slowly ramping up the training for winter track. We train over winter break so we are ready to compete from late January through the Big South Indoor Championship in early March. Spring track starts in late March so much runners only take a couple days completely off of running between the winter and spring season. Spring track can go all the way through late May if you are good enough to make it to the NCAA National Championship in Oregon.
To have the motivation to run year round, you either really love running every day, have high ambitions with huge goals that are months away, or both. As for me, I train hard and run every day more because of the desire to win and exceed my goals at the National level more-so than the enjoyment of running every day. My love for distance running is because of my competitive instinct. I would not go for a 10 mile run every day just for the enjoyment of running 10 miles. Each run an each workout pulls me closer to that end goal I set for myself and gives me an advantage over all the other college distance runners I compete against.
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