To answer the original question, and as somebody who went to university in the 2000's (probably a similar time to Mo). It is absolutely true that Monday, and Wednesday were big students nights with cheap drinks, and Saturday is a big night for everyone in the population
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RunsAllWeek wrote:
Good to see a journalist asking the important questions.
Yeah GQ doing a fluff piece. Crazy!
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Correct answer wrote:
Who cares?
^… this is the correct response.
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When I was in college in England we trained our asses off but party nights were generally Sunday through Saturday
One reason I think I ran so much better in the USA..although I trained less
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RunsAllWeek wrote:
Good to see a journalist asking the important questions.
he's not a real journalist, he just plays one on the internet
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TBF he's muslim so the "partying" would have been everyone around him drinking 10 pints and a kebab, and him with a half of Coke. (not that coke).
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rojo wrote:
There is a nice profile of Farah in the British GQ. In it, Farah reveals that he learned in college he needed to get serious and stop partying so much as he realized the kenyans just ran and slept.
But what shocked me is he said the big party nights were Saturday, Wednesday adn sometimes Monday. Is that normal for the UK?
When I was in college in the US, the big nights were Thursday and Saturday. Not Friday as there are a lot of athletes at Princeton.
Here is where Farah talks about the uni party scene:
The biggest lesson for me was at University, when I moved to live with Kenyan runners in Teddington. Being a Uni lad, I’d go out on a Saturday, Wednesday and sometimes on a Monday. I really enjoyed myself and being with my friends, but there comes a point where you have to make a commitment: do you want to become an athlete or do you want to become an average runner?
At that point I decided that I wanted to become Olympic champion, I wanted to become world champion. What did I need to do? I remember talking to my agent at the time and he said, “Well we do look after a lot of the Kenyans here, why don't you just see how you get on with them, stay with them, train with them.” They were sleeping and eating – that was all they were doing, whereas I was coming back at midnight and playing PlayStation. I started to think, How am I going to beat these guys if I'm not even doing half of the work they're doing? That's the point I decided to work out what I needed to do.
Okay
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Often uni students have a half day on Wednesdays - traditionally the afternoon is used for sport and there can be races on that day. Saturday is self-explanatory. Monday is always the cheapest night for drinks (things like 99p shots) as they want to get people in after the busy weekend.
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Sounds about right. Wednesday was always Sports Fed night - the venue was given over to the sports clubs to get hammered. It's usually dominated by rugby boys called Toby wearing women's clothes. Monday was cheap drinks night
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Charlie Murphy wrote:
Ed sings "potty" not "party."
She'd been to Africa and came back with a parasite. Spent months on the toilet.
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Makes sense, at my liberal arts school, the party nights are Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
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T-Th classes are not as important as M-W-F classes.
Also it depends on what nights the bars have specials.
I know some state schools stopped holding Friday classes because the students went out partying on Thursday nights because they went home on weekends.
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Can we define “party”? He drank beer at a frat house? Or are we taking about getting drunk? He got drunk three nights a week? Why should anyone care about someone getting drunk? Shouldn’t we care more about getting them into AA?
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It’s just ‘humble brag’ trying to make out he was a ‘normal guy’ who pulled himself up,he was on an elite endurance running scholarship at St Mary’s that involved virtually zero courses to be taken.He would of been utterly utterly bored out of his skull other than the training sessions,the college has a genuine student body [sports science and teacher training]that as has been mentioned would of had Wednesday afternoons off for sport so yeah he either had a few drinks with the rugby gang at the lovely riverside pubs 2min from college once or twice or got the bus into nearby Kingston to go to the mad clubs which are like a zoo and you’d get threatened with a glass to the face for looking at someone’s girlfriend which would definitely offer a student discount on some nights ,there is no way he was getting slaughtered 3 nights a week for years on the trot he would of gone to ‘Oceans’ once and never returned unless he liked the kind of coke that doesn’t come in a glass .The suburb [Teddington]had a colony of African distance runners independent of the college as both Richmond and Bushy parks were v v close and Heathrow airport was close for travel ,they were said to be totally professional by the staff at the SweatShop running shop in Teddington who said the runners highlight of the day was cooking maize dishes from back home
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Monday night is sin night and Wednesday night is dollar drinks at one place and $10 sink or swim at another. Rojo, You’re incredibly boring and unfunny. It’s no surprise that you don’t know the good party nights. Taco Tuesday is self explanatory. Foam Thursday’s are legendary. And of course HOB sundays. Friday and Saturday? Those are for the poseur weekend warriors.
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In large cities there will usually be a club that has a student night every night from Mon-Thu - mass appeal middle of the road music, cheap booze (50p for vodka redbull back in my day!) The Student Union at the Uni will have its own nights at the weekend, when going into town gets expensive.
Mo was at St Mary’s - attracted a huge number of distance runners on UK, but relatively low conversion rate for the volume of talent they had. Too much of a party culture where being amongst the best in the UK was enough when they had no excuse not to be aiming for far bigger things. There were a few success stories… Andrew Osage springs to mind.
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Isn't this guy a mozlem! They can't drink alcohol according to islam.
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jamin wrote:
His definition of party is probably a lot different than your definition
Exactly.
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I wonder how much a guy who weighs nothing and is constantly tired from training can drink.
1-2 beers?
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