When they discover altitude was beneficial? That's about the time they started taking them.
When they discover altitude was beneficial? That's about the time they started taking them.
Bower Man wrote:
NCAA requires teams to run races within 2 weeks of the first day of fall training.
So, some schools run a race right after getting together on campus (typically a race held the last Saturday of August), then head up to camp for 2-3 weeks. This works for schools on a quarter system where fall classes begin at the end of September.
If local late-August pre-camp races can't be found, then schools may choose to go to altitude camps first then run their races within 2 weeks just before starting school.
These "races" are frequently just tempo runs for the top runners.
UCCS had their "Rust Buster" race on the 7th, wonder if they ran that to meet the requirement?
MM3307 wrote:
Bower Man wrote:
NCAA requires teams to run races within 2 weeks of the first day of fall training.
So, some schools run a race right after getting together on campus (typically a race held the last Saturday of August), then head up to camp for 2-3 weeks. This works for schools on a quarter system where fall classes begin at the end of September.
If local late-August pre-camp races can't be found, then schools may choose to go to altitude camps first then run their races within 2 weeks just before starting school.
These "races" are frequently just tempo runs for the top runners.
UCCS had their "Rust Buster" race on the 7th, wonder if they ran that to meet the requirement?
My goodness!
Probably alot. Throw in an assitant coach and trainer / massage guy, Maybe a chief , who knows.
I would say low end 13 - 14 K total and high end 15 - 17 K for 3 weeks ...
Dr No wrote:
Probably alot. Throw in an assitant coach and trainer / massage guy, Maybe a chief , who knows.
I would say low end 13 - 14 K total and high end 15 - 17 K for 3 weeks ...
My gosh!
I guess for all those years when you were at Cornell they took the annual trip and never told you about it. Those guys can certainly keep a secret.
Flounder wrote:
I guess for all those years when you were at Cornell they took the annual trip and never told you about it. Those guys can certainly keep a secret.
MY GOODNESS!!!
Dr No wrote:
Probably alot. Throw in an assitant coach and trainer / massage guy, Maybe a chief , who knows.
I would say low end 13 - 14 K total and high end 15 - 17 K for 3 weeks ...
not a real word.
not a real word. wrote:
Dr No wrote:
Probably alot. Throw in an assitant coach and trainer / massage guy, Maybe a chief , who knows.
I would say low end 13 - 14 K total and high end 15 - 17 K for 3 weeks ...
not a real word.
My gosh!!!
Ro Mo wrote:
not a real word. wrote:
not a real word.
My gosh!!!
MY GOODNESS
Sesamoiditis wrote:
Doesn't Iowa state spend all fall in Flagstaff training and taking online courses?
Patently false, but sounds like a blast
rojo wrote:
We've released half of our NCAA xc previews today and I noticed this in our women's preview.
Jonathan Gault wrote:
The Huskies are just wrapping up a block of altitude training in Colorado Springs (UW doesn’t start classes until September 25), which served as a journey into the unknown for everyone involved. Coach Maurica Powell took her Oregon teams to Sunriver, Ore., (4,100 feet) for preseason camp, but taking a group this big (17 women) this high (6,000 feet) for this long (three weeks) is virgin territory.
When did trips like that start being allowed?
Imagine the cost of a trip like that.
Women's Preview:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/09/2019-ncaa-womens-xc-preview-10-michigan-state-through-6-washington/Men's Preview:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/09/2019-ncaa-mens-xc-season-preview-mens-teams-10-portland-through-6-notre-dame/
not sure if this was brought up yet but UCLA goes to Big Bear every year or something like that for the same reason. They have late starts
Oh mercy wrote:
Ro Mo wrote:
My gosh!!!
MY GOODNESS
My goooodness
That's perfect
WinnytheBish wrote:
rojo wrote:
We've released half of our NCAA xc previews today and I noticed this in our women's preview.
When did trips like that start being allowed?
Imagine the cost of a trip like that.
Women's Preview:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/09/2019-ncaa-womens-xc-preview-10-michigan-state-through-6-washington/Men's Preview:
https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/09/2019-ncaa-mens-xc-season-preview-mens-teams-10-portland-through-6-notre-dame/not sure if this was brought up yet but UCLA goes to Big Bear every year or something like that for the same reason. They have late starts
My goodness!
Some of these teams think that altitude is the magic bullet straight into NCAA's but the problem is they try to execute all the same paces at altitude as they do sea level and end up with serious accumulative fatigue. A few years ago I remember when Princeton women, North Carolina, and some of D2 schools come out to Colorado to train but all of them failed to make NCAA's because they cooked themselves up in the summer.
lovelybones wrote:
Some of these teams think that altitude is the magic bullet straight into NCAA's but the problem is they try to execute all the same paces at altitude as they do sea level and end up with serious accumulative fatigue. A few years ago I remember when Princeton women, North Carolina, and some of D2 schools come out to Colorado to train but all of them failed to make NCAA's because they cooked themselves up in the summer.
My goodness!
Second thing I’ve read today where Rojo is talking about the cost for UW. Other one was them going to Boston.
Rojo, is this your latest obsession, how much money the UW cross country team spends?
rojo wrote:
We've released half of our NCAA xc previews today and I noticed this in our women's preview.
[quote]Jonathan Gault wrote:
The Huskies are just wrapping up a block of altitude training in Colorado Springs (UW doesn’t start classes until September 25), which served as a journey into the unknown for everyone involved. Coach Maurica Powell took her Oregon teams to Sunriver, Ore., (4,100 feet) for preseason camp, but taking a group this big (17 women) this high (6,000 feet) for this long (three weeks) is *VIRGIN* territory.
Hehehe...
17 young fit (and probably horny) college coeds - and he said "VIRGIN" territory. I guess "uncharted waters" would have been too much. And where were the young studs, er...young men of the men's XC team?
red blood cell heroes wrote:
Sesamoiditis wrote:
Doesn't Iowa state spend all fall in Flagstaff training and taking online courses?
Martin Smith used to pay one of the OU guys each year in extra scholarship to rent a team house in Flag for the summer.
No wonder he was fired. What ever happened to that genius?