Is this allowed in college?

why wouldn't it be allowed? yeah, its probably a dumb workout...but its not against the rules

hell ya this is allowed, teach you guys to run like pussies. Anything goes in college.

Your coach sounds like an idiot, not the kind of program I'd want to be associated with.

Also I'd have to say my BS detector is sounding Loudly. Most college coaches know that distance runners don't repond to football coach tactics. Distance runners are a self motovated lot and don't need a lot of rah rah or Bear Bryant style "Whipp yo' butt into shape" type coaching. This is especially true on the collegiate level.

Any coach that would do such a thing deserves to have his runners defect to other programs. Nuff said on that.

and NCAA rules say that you may not have a train on competition day=

You picked THE perfect word to describe that coach- Jack Ass.

I know there are some HORRID "coaches" out there and I can see how someone might even be so stupid as to try such a thing. But 20 miles just seems excessively stupid. I doubt some guys on our team could have run 20 miles, and the rest of us would have refused to get out of the van.

Coaching or lack thereof, remains one of the weakest points of our sport. On the HS level often it is dumped on some unsuspecting new teacher w/o any running experience. I feel for the kids that have to deal with morons there to collect the small stipend. How many runners do we lose because of idiots like that?

agreed. way too many lost and overzealous (spelling?) coaches.

This is very true. I missed my first meet of the season. I left a voice mail on my friends phone. Apparently he told the rest of the team about it. The coach said nothing to me. It's because he knew that the feelings I felt inside were punishing enough. Yesterday we ran a really tough workout. I won't go into details about the workout but it was probably the best workout any coach ever gave any team. The 30 minute cool down was totally silent. It was awesome.

As long as it doesn't surpass the total number of weekly hours allowed.

what excatly is the total numbers of hours one can train?

20 hours per week while in season and 8 hours out of season, division 1.

Also for Div.1, no practice on the same day of a competition.

it was a cool down

Man, I must be mentally slipping, because this reply has made me laugh every time I've seen it.

stipdstupid wrote:

hell ya this is allowed, teach you guys to run like pussies. Anything goes in college.

THIS IS A NCAA RULE VIOLATION! It is illegal to run a practice after a competition. The coach better watch himself before some disgruntled athlete turns him in.

I don't think the coach will lose his job over this instance. However I do think that this was a poor judgement call on his part. That long run after the meet is probably the dumbest thing I heard out of coach in along time. Personally if you keep running bad under this coach I would quit the team. It sounds like you could do a lot better coaching yourself. College running is supposed to be for developing athletes not tearing them apart.

Along with the 20hrs/wk rule...correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it also an NCAA rule that one day a week must be an optional training day? I think this is across all sports.

That would suck.If we have a good race our coach give's us extra meal money.In fact last season one person on our team broke a school record and they got a extra $50.00 for the day with their meal money.I don't think it's legal but it rocks!

Jizzmo wrote:

Also I'd have to say my BS detector is sounding Loudly. Most college coaches know that distance runners don't repond to football coach tactics. Distance runners are a self motovated lot and don't need a lot of rah rah or Bear Bryant style "Whipp yo' butt into shape" type coaching. This is especially true on the collegiate level.

Any coach that would do such a thing deserves to have his runners defect to other programs. Nuff said on that.

agreed. although, i've seen some warped hardcore football-esque DIII and juco coaches where such a story might play.

the driving with the running is retarded. the michigan womens coach use to drive along the road and call out mile splits for long runs whilst yelling encouragement. now bare in mind, these are long runs, not tempo or workouts. i can't imagine how f***ing annoying it would be to have some f***ing jackass yelling out mile splits while i'm trying to work off my hangover on an early sunday morning.