She was once a runner

It is no mystery to who the author is.

Mrs. Obvious wrote:

It is no mystery to who the author is.

All I've seen is "Danielle," and that sort of came out of nowhere. Care to enlighten us?

Mrs. Obvious wrote:

It is no mystery to who the author is.

All I've seen is "Danielle," and that sort of came out of nowhere. Care to enlighten us?[/quote]

Skim the thread from the beginning and you'll find the discussion a few pages in.

lol@tards.. wrote:

someone chlorinate this guy's gene pool... better yet, just bleach it.

Your comment doesn't sound so cute to those of us who know that bleach *is* chlorine.

You are an idiot, Kara Goucher has stated numerous times that she has hit 120+ miles a week.

female college runner wrote:Skim the thread from the beginning and you'll find the discussion a few pages in.

It took me a couple tries, but I found it! Thanks.

It's About Time wrote:

female college runner wrote:Skim the thread from the beginning and you'll find the discussion a few pages in.

It has been edited so not all the detective work is still there. It was too accurate I guess.

It took me a couple tries, but I found it! Thanks.

can someone tell me the page... or just post an update of the hints... tyvm

i think page 5....im looking also. Boston College?

Interesting that Danielle's BC bio is bare bones: photo, class, high school and nothing else, while her teammates' bios are relatively thorough. It looks like she may not have run much her junior and senior years.

I highly doubt its Duke. They seem like one of the happiest teams around and their coach also seems like a nice guy..definitely not the cold and depressing enviroment the author presented

well, kudos to Danielle ,or whoever, for an incredible piece of writing. English major??

In any case, I love reading it and it doesn't sound too off the mark, sadly.

When I ran in college I was lucky to have a very different experience! But, I also ran at a smaller, not known for running, Div I school. My coach was great overall.

The previous coach at my school, however....Horror stories. From what I heard (from older teammates) he publicly measured everyone's bodyfat a few times. Then, he nagged his star runner every single day about her weight until she became so anorexic she could not run at all. (What's sad is that she was running really well - injury-free and improving every season - before he started really bothering her about losing weight! She just had a stockier build than your average distance runner.) By track season of her senior year she was skeletal, lanuga and everything. When team members expressed concerns to the coach he told them to butt out. Finally, the trainers intervened and took her out of competition.

Somehow my coach managed to produce good results without being abusive. He wasn't the best recruiter, so we weren't the best at our game, but most of us saw great improvement in our times. We still had eating disorder issues on our team, but nothing too severe. Our coach did his best to address the issues (mainly by Listening to concerns from team members, NOT supporting disordered eating, monitoring the athletes in question, making referrals to nutritionists/therapists). Weight issues (over- or under-) were handled that way in general: referral to professionals - as they should be! And we had nutritionists talk to our team on more than one occasion.

The only parts of the blog I really relate to from my personal experience are 1) the coaches not talking to us after our team raced poorly. (After one race, they actually sat in the airport scowling, ignoring the whole team: men and women.) 2) The money lectures - There were a few and 3) eating disorders of course (though NOT encouraged by coaching staff and handled appropriately).

Page 8 has the most info it seems.

finding it wrote:

can someone tell me the page... or just post an update of the hints... tyvm

I'm going to guess that the hints were removed for a reason, but if you're curious I would suggest going on the BC XC archive for the 2001 season and finding the athlete who met the same criteria as the author of SWOAR for finishing place on the team during the first race and pre-nats.

Thanks very much for the updates. Wow great detective work. And thanks very much to the writer, Danielle or whoever she is. Please keep it going. This is something that needs to be said and is getting lots of interest.

link of cemetery near Boston College

maybe another clue

!/profile.php?id=1601032

Education/Psychology

wat?!? wrote:

I highly doubt its Duke. They seem like one of the happiest teams around and their coach also seems like a nice guy..definitely not the cold and depressing enviroment the author presented

"Happiest teams" and "nice guy"??? Wrong and wrong - talk to many former Duke runners. Many of Duke's athletic teams are successful, happy, healthy, and well coached. The women's cross country/track team doesn't fit into that category.

I saved the detective work as a text file because I figured it might get deleted. Normally the mods on this site simply have their panties in a giant self-important bunch, but in this case I can understand their motives. Particularly when people started pointing out the identity of other characters in the story. Since we aren't sure how fictionalized the stories are, it's unfair to simply slap their real names on the characters and say "This person did that in 2001."