Do all elite NCAA xc teams have early morning practices?

Da Irony of da sitchiashun wrote:

Many D1 schools have morning practice. We ran at 6:30 and then had afternoon practice.

I had the same experience ... running zombies, could go home and go back to sleep in 15 min and would hardly remember the morning run. Not much chitty chat going on at 6:30.

I enjoyed how my "elite for DII" team did morning runs. Basically they were up to yourself to get in, at whatever time you woke up. If someone didn't have class until 10am, why would they have to get up at 6:30 to run, why not wait until 8? You get the same benefits from the run either way.

runnnnn wrote:

ncca is not elite. those are amateurs.

Are people really this stupid? The elite are the best within whatever particular group you are talking about. This thread is specifically about elite NCAA teams; in other words, the best NCAA teams. How is this hard?

spunk wrote:

Yes. I'm up at 5:20 most days and out the door by 5:45 to get in my first run. It makes you a man. Teaches discipline and is more beneficial for your training, provided that you are getting adequate sleep the night before. I dont really think anyone can argue otherwise. Anything else at the elite NCAA level is just laziness .

Unless that's how much time you need to get in the run, shower, eat, and make it to class then there is no reason to have to be up that early.

If you watch any of the videos of the Elite runners (guys that don't work a job, their jog IS running) they aren't up at the @ss crack of dawn for their morning run.

There's always been what Ive called "a running monk" attitude by some runners. The idea that a runners life must be hard in order to reap the rewards. That's not true. Making life hard for the sake of it makes no sense. If you train smart, and put in the work there is no need for a hair-shirt and self-flagellation.

FSU and OSU are colleges. Elites are post-college.

Our highschool team does 20-30 minute morning runs/tertiary runs every day, then practices at 220 pm. I thought that was typical through college.