Team No-Drinking Policy

Maybe you should concern yourself with making the top 7 than if you can drink on Halloween or not. Think about it.

Jimmy McBranson wrote:

What does the letsrun community think?

Not much; just that you're an asshole.

If you don't like the policy, ignore it, but be discreet.

CTC YOURE an asshole!!

You are a team. Now start acting like a team and follow the team policy.

i agree...maybe you should have the seniors talk to the captain about it. For those guys who are 21, that aren't running, that is not fair at all..

Haha guys, trust me I am working hard to make the top 7. I don't have a huge problem with the policy. I like the spirit of it. I will probably follow it.

sure it would be nice to drink i guess. but, your teammates are out there busting their ass and not drinking. be supportive and respectful of your teammates and go through it with them. its always easier to give in to temptation if you are surrounded by it. if some of your good friends are drinking you will want to join in. don't make it harder on them.

If you can't go without drinking for 4-5 weeks this might be why you're running at a D3 school.

calvin is running a dry season. it's working for them.

It's actually the opposite, I think.

What?? wrote:

If you can't go without drinking for 4-5 weeks this might be why you're running at a D3 school.

What?? wrote:

If you can't go without drinking for 4-5 weeks this might be why you're running at a D3 school.

Who brought the cool kid...

I may be an asshole, but at least I'm not an elitist asshole. You know how many D1 runners drink in moderation? A shit load. I even knew a couple who would over do it and still run well. To the OP, just be smart. If you decide to break the rule, be discreet like someone above said.

I actually agree with CTC. If drinking is that important to you, you should probably quit the team. If it is not that important than follow the rule.

It seems like it might be better to just say that everyone has to stay dry until his last race. After conferences, anybody who isn't top 7 or an alternate should be free to party. But don't have any team social events until regionals/nationals are over and everyone is a free man again.

The point of not drinking is not so much about the lack of alcohol ingestion, but more the solidarity factor and the idea of sacrifice motivating you to a better performance. If you guys rebel against that, you pretty much destroy the whole point of the pact.

As it sounds like you are not the one that has a problem with the policy, but are the one whom teammates are venting to, I would go chat with the Captain(s) on their behalf voicing their concerns and potential solutions. Personally, I think it is a good move; however, done the wrong way can break up team unity and in the end screw the team. I would have him come up with activities for the whole team to be involved in after those that are no longer able to race are done. Also, have them still come in with the team and run during practice as their own group in addition to trying to organize them to make a trip to watch your team run Regionals/Nationals. This way if they are giving up drinking and hence freedom for the team, they at least feel part of the team even though they can no longer compete.

ARTIST: George Thorogood and the Destroyers

TITLE: I Drink Alone

Lyrics and Chords

I drink alone, yeah with nobody else

/ E7 - - - - - - - /

{Refrain}

I drink alone, yeah with nobody else

Yeah, you know when I drink alone

I prefer to be by myself

/ E7 - - - - - - / C7 - D7 - / E7 - - - /

Now, every morning just before breakfast

I don't want no coffee or tea

Just me and my good Buddy Wiser

That's all I ever need

/ E - / / / /

'Cause I drink alone, yeah with nobody else...

Yeah, the other night I lay sleepin'

And I woke from a terrible dream

So I called up my pal Jack Daniels

And his partner Jimmy Beam

And we drank alone, yeah with nobody else

Yeah, the other day I got invited to a party

But I stayed home instead

Just me and my pal Johnny Walker

And his brothers, Black and Red

And we drank alone, yeah...

Yeah, my whole family done give up on me

And it makes me feel oh so bad

The only one who'll hang out with me

Is my dear Old Granddad

And we drink alone, yeah...

Yeah, you know when I drink alone

I prefer to be by myself

I drink alone

If enough people on this team think that a no drinking policy is a problem, then the team itself has already set its own destiny.

Even at the age of 18, if you don't realize that drinking can in NO WAY improve your performance, then there is a problem.

If someone who can't even make a division 3 top 7 doesn't isn't doing everything in their power to do so, then there is a problem.

I am sure your school has plenty of social clubs like frats that can give you companionship with drinking as a theme. Do that.

Don't waste the time of your coach, or the team mates who respect our sport.

"the whole point of the pact."

A pact is agreement. A policy is dictated.

"solidarity"

Solidarity by policy?