Don't people have classes on Fridays? Are you traveling on Thursday?
What started this practice?
Don't people have classes on Fridays? Are you traveling on Thursday?
What started this practice?
clubrunner wrote:
Don't people have classes on Fridays? Are you traveling on Thursday?
What started this practice?
Cause Saturdays are for the Boys!
At a much-used venue like Van Cortlandt Park, for instance, Saturdays for several weekends are taken up with big high school meets. That leaves Friday and Sunday for the colleges.
Beyond that: Many colleges and universities have cut back seriously on their Friday classes, so xc-ers have few academic conflicts that day.
And--let's be honest--a lot of college xc coaches love the idea of having a weekend "off" (for themselves and their families, that is--of course the athletes will still have to train).
College football is on Saturdays.
It used to be just a few meets are on friday evenings. Twilight racing is fun, but more and more meets went to friday because it allows a day of recovery before a sunday long run.
The sports that people care about are on saturdays
Because coaches get an extra day off, and don't really care about the academic well being of student athletes
I think it is the same reason high school races have gone to predominately taking place on weekdays:
They cannot get workers to show up on a Saturday. Volunteers no longer want to give up their weekend.
So you can have a yuge party at the track house that night and get blackout drunk
Most golf courses do not want to give up their saturdays. I also believe coaches like the short recovery on saturdays and the long run on sunday.
Juice Springsteen wrote:
The sports that people care about are on saturdays
This is the reason at P5 schools at least. Can't have people stealing precious parking spots miles away from the stadium. It is a nightmare going for a jog on game days.