Does the Womens team date the Mens team?

Oregon in the 80s wrote:

Looking back, I'm more inclined to think that so many of those men on that team were whackos because of something inherent to that particular team and that school's distance coach in that era, rather than characteristics unique to distance runners in general...if that makes you feel any better.

Now you get it. Taking a broad look at various Universities throughout the country in all divisions over many years I think that distance runners were/are more apt to be the scholar athletes and less likely to get in some type of trouble while in school.

about 5 years before my xc years (06-10), there was a ton of tension between the teams. Then two 08 kids started dating, dated are still together 3 years later, and they did a lot of work to integrate the team. In my time there was a lot of fraternizing...I dated a runner semi-long-term, there was lots of the normal college nonsense among my peers, and each year a few kids got involved together long-term. The gay members of our team, FWIW, tended to exhaust their options fairly quickly, and that could get a little claustrophobic. As someone else posted, breakups

Anyone else find runners both male and female to be a bit...neurotic? Certainly not all of them. But I knew some quite obsessive-compulsive folks who were unhealthily focused on academics and not super-fun. On the women's team, disordered eating often went go hand-in-hand with the neuroticism. Female captains my year let it be known that the men should eat some dinners with the women to give an example of healthy, plentiful eating. But it was sometimes uncomfortable to watch them pick at their brown rice and broccoli with a glass of lemon tea after a 10x800 workout when I was looking at 3-4 plates of food.

Looking back on it, it's possible that everyone at small D III schools is a little crazy, it just manifests in different ways.

Wtf here too...The guys I know who run XC and long distance are usually the smart and more "nerdy" than the sprint guys. In my experience the sprinters are among the dumbest in track. They can often be compared to the dumb*sses who lift weights all they and drink protein shakes to every meal.

All my experience is exactly the opposite of yours, it seems more like you're terrible at judging people, who manages to date THAT many losers?

Big muscles more than not equals muscles over brain.

whottt wrote:

Do the members of woman's XC team often date members of the mens team? It seems as though the fit and attractive female runners would go for bigger more muscular guys like Soccer or Water polo players...

Regarding water polo players.....these guys are really in shape and pretty tough, but I have way more respect for their horses. Holy crap, amazing animals.

No shit. Do they ever even come up for air?

toodles wrote:

Stuck with match.com wrote:

THATS NOT TRUE! Women are very shallow and runners don't appeal to them. Women will go on and on about how looks don't really matter, but guess what women LIE! Women are evil manipulating creatures who get what they want.

Only truth in the statement noted above:

Women will go on and on about how looks don't really matter, but guess what women LIE (about that)!

Carry on.

Women ARE shallow. I coach many women runner and they've PERSONALLY told me they don't date runners cause they are wimpy skinny guys who don't appeal to them.

370zzzz wrote:

I dated a girl on my team during college and several of my teammates were also dating girls on the team. The thing about runner girls is they are usually not very good looking so competition is low - they generally are emaciated and have no 'shape' (boobs).

Girls are definitely lying when they say looks don't matter. Only the ugly guys believe that shit.

The problem is that the guys on the team are usually not very good looking so competition is low they are usually scrawny and look emaciated and wimpy. . .

And like males aren't any more shallow, given the talk on here about "looks", etc.

370zzzz wrote:

I dated a girl on my team during college and several of my teammates were also dating girls on the team. The thing about runner girls is they are usually not very good looking so competition is low - they generally are emaciated and have no 'shape' (boobs).

Girls are definitely lying when they say looks don't matter. Only the ugly guys believe that shit.

Have you ever been to a college track meet? The girl runners are smoking, especially the sprinters. There's booty everywhere.

It sounds to me like you were part of a very strange, abnormal cross-country team that isn't representative of most.

Just a test

Ah Ha wrote:

370zzzz wrote:

I dated a girl on my team during college and several of my teammates were also dating girls on the team. The thing about runner girls is they are usually not very good looking so competition is low - they generally are emaciated and have no 'shape' (boobs).

Girls are definitely lying when they say looks don't matter. Only the ugly guys believe that shit.

The problem is that the guys on the team are usually not very good looking so competition is low they are usually scrawny and look emaciated and wimpy. . .

I admittedly was scrawny and emaciated...thank god I got into bodybuilding after running and actually fixed this problem. My ex still looks like a runner though and after the girls I've been with since, I no longer find that attractive at all.

Dude. I was wearing contacts by then. The closest I came to asking Suzy Favor out was going up to her hotel room to congratulate her after her great 1500 NCAA victory her freshman year. She was on the phone talking to Mark so I didn't get too far.

Morton Phalange wrote:

Suzy Favor to Scott Fry:

"OMG, you are SUCH a little four-eyed dweeb! Gag me with a spoon!! NO WAY!!"

Suzy Favor to Badger pitcher Mark Hamilton:

"Pick me up at 7:00."

in my experience, absolutely they date and often get married. We had 7 cross country couples get married while I was in school in the early 2000's. All couples are still married and many still run.

tdog wrote:

in my experience, absolutely they date and often get married. We had 7 cross country couples get married while I was in school in the early 2000's. All couples are still married and many still run.

In seperate programs my coach would bitch at us for even looking at the girls team during practice.

Did you go to Colorado?

Usually I avoid girls on my team you become distracted in training and that isn't good for the serious runner stick to girls outside the team so you can practice at practice

hyhhhh wrote:

[quote]Oregon in the 80s wrote:

It sounds to me like you were part of a very strange, abnormal cross-country team that isn't representative of most.

Maybe you're right. Unfortunately that group of *men* gave, and still gives, track and field and its athletes a bad name at a time when this sport needs positive associations, rather than degenerates as members of its community.

to answer the original question: yes, about half of the girls team at my school is dating someone on the mens team.

to oregon in the 80's: sounds like you got your heart broken by a long distance man stud... or 2... or 3

yes,that is very normal.lol