Every runner in college needs to plan an exit strategy

What do you mean "transition"? To what?

Metoo wrote:

What do you mean "transition"? To what?

Life

What? I don't think many people leave college without any plan at all. Every person in general needs an exit plan, not only runners.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

Metoo wrote:

What do you mean "transition"? To what?

Life

Everyone knows that you we're just enjoying it while it lasts. Many people don't get to run in college & honestly it's the best 4 years so enjoy it while it lasts. I've thought about it. Get a nice job & get ripped. Tired of being a lean MD runner

I finished my eligibity 9 years ago. Everyone in my class had an easy time exiting to the "real world." I don't think runners need to think about it anymore than any other student. I was at a DI and we had two guys continue competitive running in Oly Trials for a good number of years post college. They are no better or worse off than anyone else at this point.

I will say, a number of my teammates said I am gonna lift and get ripped after school. You can't say any of the guys I ran with are fat, but the guys who had plans to start lifting never did, and they are the flabbiest out of my class at this point.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

99.999% of you will not become professional runners.

Do you have a plan when your college senior season is over?

XC/Track was fun during college but start thinking about the transition in your Junior year.

You must be stupid, we know that.

We become local heroes if we still want to compete, maybe a local club.

Fitness running for the fun of it or maybe a marathon challenge.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

99.999% of you will not become professional runners.

Do you have a plan when your college senior season is over?

XC/Track was fun during college but start thinking about the transition in your Junior year.

Everybody knows this already.

I'm pretty sure 99.9% of collegiate runners know they will not be in college forever. What percentage of collegiate runners do you think plan on becoming pro runners/Olympic level runners?

I'd say the number is very very small.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

99.999% of you will not become professional runners.

Do you have a plan when your college senior season is over?

XC/Track was fun during college but start thinking about the transition in your Junior year.

Good thing you brought this up. I really thought I'd be in college forever.

Man, if only there were some way for collegiate runners to further their educations or gain employable skills in addition to running!

I realize that most of this thread isn't serious at all, but I have one request for the college grads... coach or volunteer to help runners at the youth level. Give back to the sport that raised you. Every young kid looks up to college runners, and your knowledge of current training methods will at most times be way more useful than some of us old farts and our old ways. If you want to see your sport survive and thrive, get young kids involved in running. Help them find the same passion that motivated you. Just my 2 cents...

If you plan your races well, you've got years of

GOBBLE GOBBLE MOTHER F*ERS!!!

ahead of you.

An exit strategy??

Just keep on running fast and tying to get better. That's what they try to do in the rest of the world.

After five years of grueling running and study, I dropped out and quit running.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

99.999% of you will not become professional runners.

Do you have a plan when your college senior season is over?

XC/Track was fun during college but start thinking about the transition in your Junior year.

Thanks for the earth shattering news. Out of all my old college teammates, none of us struggled with an "exit strategy". None of us sat around thinking we were going to become pro runners. We graduated and got jobs. Some of us continued running as hobby joggers, others quit running entirely.

breaking: reality on letsrun wrote:

99.999% of you will not become professional runners.

Do you have a plan when your college senior season is over?

XC/Track was fun during college but start thinking about the transition in your Junior year.

I think the odds are actually higher than that, especially with ultra running.

jokes wrote:

Good thing you brought this up. I really thought I'd be in college forever.

A funny thing, just realized that I've been a college student for 19 years. Never did my masters. I've enrolled every year with high hopes of finishing but there's never enough time. Maybe when I cut back running I get it done.

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