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Haushinka wrote:

Hmm, BC would be a valid guess, as there is no money for mens xc/t&f and there entire team is made up of walk-ons. And it does have a reputation for being a rich kid school, although academically, it is very strong. And then again, there are plenty of schools like that. I think it is kind of futile to try to guess the school to be honest. Afterall, it may be entirely fictional.

The only thing that's odd to me is that the mentioned pre-nats as the second meet of the year she runs.

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Seth says this... wrote:
They may well be torn apart, but they shouldn't be, that was one damn fine post.

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4runner wrote:

[quote]midwest girl wrote:
As for parents- I had a teammate who was fairly successful in college. All conference, all region in xc, regional qualifier in track. She was built sturdier than your typical distance runner, but by no means overweight or even had a couple spare pounds to lose. She just was built differently, plain and simple. Her parents constantly told her she needed to lose weight, shouldn't wear buns, was a disappointment because of her weight (something they said she could control), and finally said they would stop coming to meets if she didn't lose weight. Obviously you can see where this went.

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txRUNNERgirl wrote:

[quote]4runner wrote:


So it's ridiculous when someone says a coach doesn't need to worry about the lives of his/her athletes. They spend a large amount of time with them and guide them as an authority figure. This doesn't make them a parent, but they should at least take on some responsibility for the *entire* person. We aren't robots.

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A normal letsrunner. wrote:

He is getting paid to make sure they do all those things. He isn't a nanny. I thought this was a great comment by the coach. When I was in college that would have made me felt important and motived.

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There was a pause on my Dad’s end of the phone, and then a sigh. “You know, it’s really late, I guess you should leave the building. Bye.” He hung up.

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Fast_Runner wrote:

Maybe I am being ignorant, but I don't understand it:

When you have an eating disorder, doesn't that leave you weak at the end of the day? How do you get all the training in?

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txRUNNERgirl wrote:

This was also disgusting:

"'There’s a lot of money in this room,' Coach continued. 'A million dollars worth, in fact, over the course of four years.' Coach’s focus turned to the right side of the room. 'You are all getting paid to be student-athletes. This is your job: to run fast, pass your classes, and represent your school on a national level. You are not getting paid to throw parties, slack off on your training, and worry about eating disorders.'”


What do you think you're being paid for, coach?

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yo yo whatup wrote:

as has been alluded to previously in this thread: MALES HAVE EATING DISORDERS TOO

it is just spoken about less

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midwest girl wrote:

When I began reading this, I immediately wondered if it was a former teammate of mine doing the writing. This is our story.

A lot of guys on letsrun pretend they are superior to women because they don't understand them. Check yourself. You have stupid, ridiculous, toxic quirks, too. Just because you are unable to understand the way SOME women internalize pressure does not make you better or worse than them. Don't forget a lot of the issues that face women, face men too. Eating disorders are rampant among male distance runners, yet receive little attention. No one says the sick things about males with disorders that are said about women. I fully anticipate the things I have said to be torn apart, but please remember that we are all driven by the same passion, it just manifests itself in different ways among us.

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early 2000's runner girl wrote:

Almost positive it's BC--their women's team had crazy ED issues in the early '00s and the coaches sound like RT and KF.

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Fast_Runner wrote:

Maybe I am being ignorant, but I don't understand it:

When you have an eating disorder, doesn't that leave you weak at the end of the day? How do you get all the training in?

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Fat former runner wrote:

[quote]txRUNNERgirl wrote:

This was also disgusting:

"'There’s a lot of money in this room,' Coach continued. 'A million dollars worth, in fact, over the course of four years.' Coach’s focus turned to the right side of the room. 'You are all getting paid to be student-athletes. This is your job: to run fast, pass your classes, and represent your school on a national level. You are not getting paid to throw parties, slack off on your training, and worry about eating disorders.'”


What do you think you're being paid for, coach?

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creditdue wrote:

My opinion is that scholarship offers are for rewarding hard work in your development. When someone posts stuff about girls not deserving scholarships it really makes me realize how sad some of these people are. If you add up the hours my daughter will train before she goes to college she would totally deserve a scholarship.

To me when women train and rise to the top of their sport it deserves more respect then men. When boys reach puberty they put on muscle, girls put on fat. It is really hard work to continue to get better as an athlete fighting this natural occurrence.

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