workin on my 6 pack right now!
teams staying in cheap hotels 1/4/2009 10:22PM Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Do you care if your team stays in cheap hotels before meets, i.e. super8?
Cheap not slums
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/4/2009 10:57PM - in reply to workin on my 6 pack right now! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I do not care so long as the hotel is decent quality. I refuse to stay at some hotel that looks to be infested with disease.
keep up the good work.
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/4/2009 11:04PM - in reply to workin on my 6 pack right now! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Great job, you'll definitely have a six-pack in no time.

I don't mind staying in any kind of hotel. Being with my team in a hotel is hilarious no matter what.
No way
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/4/2009 11:59PM - in reply to keep up the good work. Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Super8 is fine. Bugs and nasty are not.
crowded room
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 12:07AM - in reply to No way Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I stayed with 5 other guys in a room once before a college meet. I got lucky and picked sleeping on the floor in the closet was in a Super 8 motel. Two of the other guys sleep with their feet pointing at each other in one bed. One guy got a bed to himself and the final guy sleep on the floor between the two double beds.
Why did my skinny---fall off?
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 2:02AM - in reply to crowded room Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Meanwhile football players stay in the best hotels in town. Your AD must be an a*shole.
indeed
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 3:57PM - in reply to crowded room Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Ha, that sounds like my experience staying in Redwood City during the Stanford Invite in March.
yawnster
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:37PM - in reply to crowded room Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Do you speak English?

Coach rojo made us camp outside - JK says it makes you tougher.
mtrunner
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:42PM - in reply to yawnster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I redshirted one season. Decided to go to Stanford to race because I school doesn't have the budget to send us to those meets, bought a plain ticket rented a car and figured that was all the money I was going to spend so I slept in the car. It was a great meet and an awesome experience, hopefully I can talk my coaches into letting me go again this year
shiftercar
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:43PM - in reply to Why did my skinny---fall off? Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
There's a handful of D1 football teams that stay together in decent hotels the night before home games. I think it's meant to keep them out of trouble and focus better.
mtrunner
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:43PM - in reply to yawnster Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I redshirted one season. Decided to go to Stanford to race because my school doesn't have the budget to send us to those meets, bought a plain ticket rented a car and figured that was all the money I was going to spend so I slept in the car. It was a great meet and an awesome experience, hopefully I can talk my coaches into letting me go again this year
LC
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:50PM - in reply to shiftercar Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
shiftercar wrote:

There's a handful of D1 football teams that stay together in decent hotels the night before home games. I think it's meant to keep them out of trouble and focus better.


This is true, but the other posters statement that they "stay in the best hotels in town" is quite an exaggeration. I'm sure they stay in nicer hotels than the average xc team, but it isn't like they're spending the night at $1,000 a night 5 star hotels.
sc runner
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 4:56PM - in reply to workin on my 6 pack right now! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
My team stays at random people's houses instead of a hotel because our travel budget sucks (we get donations, but all donations are to equipment budget and none for travel budget, plus our coach refuses to do any REAL fundraisers). You guys who complain about staying in a Motel 6 should look at my team's circumstances and consider yourselves lucky.
road trip to Fla
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 5:17PM - in reply to workin on my 6 pack right now! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
We stayed in a place once maid was too busy turning 20 buck payday tricks to swap out our towels. Generic beer sold by room clerk. feral cats swarmed from dumpsters and flanked by a fast fry food place and a junkyard, dog included.
It was beautiful.

Someplace in Georgia.
Goober
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/5/2009 6:47PM - in reply to sc runner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
You pay by the hour at the hotels we stay at.
Terrible Terrible Terrible
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/6/2009 9:39AM - in reply to workin on my 6 pack right now! Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
DelMarva Inn "Hotel Conference Center"

Worst place to stay in Maryland ever!!!
Doc Holliday
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/6/2009 12:10PM - in reply to Terrible Terrible Terrible Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Terre Haute Holiday Inn limited...... between the 4 rooms we had 2 broken toilets One toilet wasn't even bolted to the ground. You would sit on it and it would move. You could actually pick it up and move it around if u wanted to. Not to mention 2 of the beds were on 2x4's as a box spring. and the maids smoked as they cleaned our room. On a bright side they served continental Breakfast. This was at NCAA D1 xc nats.
I am in agreement
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/6/2009 12:16PM - in reply to Doc Holliday Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Doc Holliday wrote:

Terre Haute Holiday Inn limited...... between the 4 rooms we had 2 broken toilets One toilet wasn't even bolted to the ground. You would sit on it and it would move. You could actually pick it up and move it around if u wanted to. Not to mention 2 of the beds were on 2x4's as a box spring. and the maids smoked as they cleaned our room. On a bright side they served continental Breakfast. This was at NCAA D1 xc nats.


Ladies and gents, your proposed permanent Nats site!
sponsored runner
RE: teams staying in cheap hotels 1/6/2009 1:37PM - in reply to I am in agreement Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
At the USA track championships in Palo Alto a few years ago, our shoe company team stayed at the Westin on El Camino Real.

All the TV guys stayed there, as did our PR person, who had to baby sit Marion Jones through a TV interview (LOL)...