This is actually because I only just made the team for indoor track (and didn't run with them for xc). In that meantime I made friends with people in my dorm. Im rooming next year with a non runner (just 1 roommate), but who wont party a lot, be distracting, and so on.
Anyone ever done this? Did you like it?
I'd rather room with a non-runner. My perfect roommate would be someone that I don't know and someone that doesn't communicate with me.
Never been done before. You're revolutionary.
it will suck balls. done it. sucked balls.
thing is I am really into running, read these messageboards a lot and so on. I feel like living with teammates would contribute to a "pure runner lifestyle." But I can't back out now since my non-runner friend and I already arranged rooming next year.
should be fine as long as he doesn't keep you up late. He probably won't pay much attention to you and you'll just be the runner roommate who goes to bed early and is out running/training for 2 hours a day. Not so bad.
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it will suck balls. done it. sucked balls.
Sounds awesome! OP, how does your roommate look?
Since you specifically stated that you are in the position of being a D1 runner I cannot help you as I ran D2. I'm sure my perspective on the situation would greatly differ....
I ran D1 and lived with a bunch of non-athletes while most of my teammates lived together. They partied a lot, but I had a secluded room and had no problem - so your no party roommate should be fine. Also, my teammates who lived together eventually got sick of each other's personalities and, to a degree, it tore them apart. So maybe living with teammates isn't the best idea. I'm drunk.
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OP, you sound like a raving rust hole chomper. Seriously, you're really into running? Couldn't have guessed that by the fact that you post here... You want a pure runner's lifestyle? Wtf, man. What the hell is a pure runner's lifestyle? Being an absolute social retard and outcast for the sake of destroying your body in a never-ending quest for endorphins?
If you think this will make you an awesome runner, having this free-of-distraction lifestyle, you're fooling yourself. I've seen it 1000 times. You need distractions. Good runners are generally well-rounded, likeable people with an outlet for all that running frustration, not these endurance robots that you seek to be.
Also, do a cost-benefit analysis here. So being on a D1 team is your dream. Ok. That's fine. You'll get to run for a year or two (or more, whatever). Then what? You'll be lost. You won't even know what to do with yourself after college because running has been your identity for years. And to be honest, not many other people are going to find your obsessive running identity very interesting or attractive. People on here may try to tell you differently, but it's because they're all just as obsessive and delusional as you. And boy do you sound like the textbook obsessive runner..."the pure runner's lifestyle"...? Alright, Quenton. From my experience with obsessive runners, the pure runner's lifestyle equates to little social interaction, constant dissatisfaction with performance, no girlfriend, very few friends, a one-dimensional personality, and an 8 o'clock bedtime. Is THAT really what you want?
I love running just like you, but heed my words. Don't make running your life, and don't make running your identity. Get the damn non-running roommate. Go out and party with him once a month. Stay up til midnight. Study your ass off. Learn an instrument. Be as friendly and social to as many people as possible. Find your soulmate. Travel/Study abroad. Eat some unhealthy food every once in a while. Try new things. If you let it, running will steal these opportunities from you. Instead, make running merely one of these things - one of the aspects of your personality. DON'T for a second think that you can't give 100% to running without having this bogus 'pure runner's lifestyle.' And you're definitely not better for choosing to be an obsessive headcase about running than someone who chooses to go about it in a healthy way.
I'll leave you with a bit of imagery. This was years ago, but my college coach's wife was a runner on the team four or five years before I joined the team. She wasn't on any kind of club team or anything, but she would always come to practice to run. Everyday. I didn't know here too well, but I only saw one dimension: running. She didn't talk much, and if she did, it was about..you guessed it..running. Anyway, she got pregnant. I'm convinced she ran every damn day while the baby was growing inside her. Seriously, she was out there at eight months, trying to put in the miles. How ridiculous! You've got a damn baby inside you, but you're soo obsessive about running (and it's all you have!), so you have to run. You just have to run.
The take home message?
Get a life. Literally.
This man has it correct. Love running, but don't make it your lifestyle. You can go out and run 130 miles a week and still go out once or twice a week at night.
I've always lived with non-runners.
your thoughts??? wrote:
I feel like living with teammates would contribute to a "pure runner lifestyle."
This is something Hitler would write if he was a runner.
your thoughts??? wrote:
thing is I am really into running, read these messageboards a lot and so on. I feel like living with teammates would contribute to a "pure runner lifestyle."
What's a "pure runner lifestyle?" Is that where you waste 4 years of opportunities at college to meet people with different backgrounds and interests, and just hang out with people who are already just like you, and you run and talk about running all the time? Or is it something else?
i was a D3 runner, so i'm gonna leave now as my input will clearly not be on the same level as the OP
OP, you sound like a raving rust hole chomper. Seriously, you're really into running? Couldn't have guessed that by the fact that you post here... You want a pure runner's lifestyle? Wtf, man. What the hell is a pure runner's lifestyle? Being an absolute social retard and outcast for the sake of destroying your body in a never-ending quest for endorphins?
If you think this will make you an awesome runner, having this free-of-distraction lifestyle, you're fooling yourself. I've seen it 1000 times. You need distractions. Good runners are generally well-rounded, likeable people with an outlet for all that running frustration, not these endurance robots that you seek to be.
Also, do a cost-benefit analysis here. So being on a D1 team is your dream. Ok. That's fine. You'll get to run for a year or two (or more, whatever). Then what? You'll be lost. You won't even know what to do with yourself after college because running has been your identity for years. And to be honest, not many other people are going to find your obsessive running identity very interesting or attractive. People on here may try to tell you differently, but it's because they're all just as obsessive and delusional as you. And boy do you sound like the textbook obsessive runner..."the pure runner's lifestyle"...? Alright, Quenton. From my experience with obsessive runners, the pure runner's lifestyle equates to little social interaction, constant dissatisfaction with performance, no girlfriend, very few friends, a one-dimensional personality, and an 8 o'clock bedtime. Is THAT really what you want?
I love running just like you, but heed my words. Don't make running your life, and don't make running your identity. Get the damn non-running roommate. Go out and party with him once a month. Stay up til midnight. Study your ass off. Learn an instrument. Be as friendly and social to as many people as possible. Find your soulmate. Travel/Study abroad. Eat some unhealthy food every once in a while. Try new things. If you let it, running will steal these opportunities from you. Instead, make running merely one of these things - one of the aspects of your personality. DON'T for a second think that you can't give 100% to running without having this bogus 'pure runner's lifestyle.' And you're definitely not better for choosing to be an obsessive headcase about running than someone who chooses to go about it in a healthy way.
I'll leave you with a bit of imagery. This was years ago, but my college coach's wife was a runner on the team four or five years before I joined the team. She wasn't on any kind of club team or anything, but she would always come to practice to run. Everyday. I didn't know here too well, but I only saw one dimension: running. She didn't talk much, and if she did, it was about..you guessed it..running. Anyway, she got pregnant. I'm convinced she ran every damn day while the baby was growing inside her. Seriously, she was out there at eight months, trying to put in the miles. How ridiculous! You've got a damn baby inside you, but you're soo obsessive about running (and it's all you have!), so you have to run. You just have to run.
The take home message?
Get a life. Literally.
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THIS.
OP, I ran for Penn State. I lived with a non-runner during my freshman year. In many respects, it sucked. He kept me awake late and had little respect for my need to sleep. But I didn't choose this guy - he was assigned to me randomly.
My sophomore and junior years, I lived with another non-runner, but this guy was a friend I chose to live with. It was awesome. It was so nice to NOT live with a teammate because it meant I could have a life outside of the team. It was so refreshing to go home and NOT have to discuss running. My teammates that lived together suffered more burnout and I believe it was a direct result of talking each others' ears off about running.
Senior year, I lived with a teammate who had quit the team. This was awesome, too. He hated the team and didn't want to discuss running whatsoever. But he understood my requirements for quiet evenings and less partying. So this was ideal, too.
your thoughts??? wrote:
This is actually because I only just made the team for indoor track (and didn't run with them for xc).
Your teammates will probably hate you because you have that cocky, prick mentality that you're better than everyone else because suddenly you're on the "Division 1 Track Team." Bro, what is you 5k PR, even?
Senior year, I lived with a teammate who had quit the team. This was awesome, too. He hated the team and didn't want to discuss running whatsoever. But he understood my requirements for quiet evenings and less partying. So this was ideal, too.
Ideal scenario. That way they understand your commitments and priorities and they understand if you want to bitch about practice or the team, but you're not around people from your team 24/7 and they can provide a release outside the team itself. You'll have to deal with them laughing at you when you have to wake up at 5am to make the bus though.