That's some D3 s**t

Racing for the love of it, not the scholarship.

Rheinhold Cacoethes wrote:

Whether it's matching paisley headbands, performing a haka (with all white dudes) in the pre-race huddle, or doing the steeple "for fun" in 12 minutes, we have all witnessed these events from the only truly amateur division. You know it when you see it - give us some examples of the best "d3 sh*t"

Why do you feel like you need to make fun of people that are obviously doing the sport just because they love it? It's like making fun of the fat lady at the gym.

Pravda wrote:

Rheinhold Cacoethes wrote:

Whether it's matching paisley headbands, performing a haka (with all white dudes) in the pre-race huddle, or doing the steeple "for fun" in 12 minutes, we have all witnessed these events from the only truly amateur division. You know it when you see it - give us some examples of the best "d3 sh*t"

Why do you feel like you need to make fun of people that are obviously doing the sport just because they love it? It's like making fun of the fat lady at the gym.

D3 sh*t is not limited to D3 but can be found at all levels. Why do you feel the need to take yourself so seriously? Objectively, the steeple is not "fun"

Posting on LetsRun

-This is ironic, I know.

Landing two feet at a time in the steeple pit about knee deep on lap 1.

That's some d3 sh*t

Racing Saturday, getting completed LOADED at a team house party afterwards, and showing up to your long run still drunk the next day.

That's some D3 s**t

Having an absolute NAF on the team. Short, pudgy, glasses. Often a minority, I've noticed. Calls the coach "coach" and desperately tries to involve himself. Runs mid-d so he gets off the track quicker. Loses every track meet, bottom 5 in every cc meet. Seems unable to comprehend his useless nature.

D3 s**t?

Let's talk about D1 s**t. Like those 50 programs all around the country who are nominally D1 but have very few athletes who can break 26 minutes in the 8k or 15 minutes on the track, place dead last at every real meet, and can barely finish 10ks.

They get scholarships, resources, and yet would get trounced by good D3 teams like North Central, Geneseo, UW Eau Claire, St. Olaf, etc.

12 minute steeples? Really?

D3 s**t must mean somebody like Ian LaMere who has run 28:38 for 10k and would easily be All-American at the D1 level despite having no resources or teammates to train with. Or how about St. Olaf, who has had 3 or 4 four-minute milers the past couple years?

Schools that the OP could never get into ...

Chicago

Brandeis

John Hopkins

Rochester

Carnegie Mellon

Wash U. STL

Emory

Case Western Reserve

NYU

burnside wrote:

Racing Saturday, getting completed LOADED at a team house party afterwards, and showing up to your long run still drunk the next day.

That's some D3 s**t

This x100

Used to do this all the time. Ran D1 but it was a joke team

UAA Ivy wrote:

Schools that the OP could never get into ...

Chicago

Brandeis

John Hopkins

Rochester

Carnegie Mellon

Wash U. STL

Emory

Case Western Reserve

NYU

Bragging about what school's they got into.

That's some d3 sh*t

YoWhatUp wrote:

D3 s**t?

Let's talk about D1 s**t. Like those 50 programs all around the country who are nominally D1 but have very few athletes who can break 26 minutes in the 8k or 15 minutes on the track, place dead last at every real meet, and can barely finish 10ks.

They get scholarships, resources, and yet would get trounced by good D3 teams like North Central, Geneseo, UW Eau Claire, St. Olaf, etc.

12 minute steeples? Really?

D3 s**t must mean somebody like Ian LaMere who has run 28:38 for 10k and would easily be All-American at the D1 level despite having no resources or teammates to train with. Or how about St. Olaf, who has had 3 or 4 four-minute milers the past couple years?

Maybe I should add "no sense of humor" to the list of D3 sh*t

Prioritizing academics over running.

That's some D3 s**t

Having fun while getting a good degree. (and not taking ourselves too seriously lol)

That's some D3 sh*t

Also just go back to the D3 girls drink hard train hard thread, the amount of truth on that thread is actually hilarious.

Does it affect you in any way? Probably not, so who cares. Live your life and let them live theirs.

UAA Ivy wrote:

Schools that the OP could never get into ...

Chicago

Brandeis

John Hopkins

Rochester

Carnegie Mellon

Wash U. STL

Emory

Case Western Reserve

NYU

Don't forget University of Phoenix and ITT Tech.

Your injured distance runners become throwers and score in the conference meet.

That's some D3 s**t

Realizing that the average person cares/knows as much about D3 running as D1 running.

That's some D3 sh*t.

I run for a very under-resourced D1 program.

This past cross season we didn't have enough backpacks for everyone on the team, so a few kids would walk around meets wearing their high school backpacks.

That's some real "D3 s**t"