Yes.
Yes.
Yes to the detriment of the program. I can tell you the name of a pretty fair runner who was being interviewed at the Euros and more or less blamed his lack of success --he was AA one time-- on having too many women around.
Another guy was freaked out over fast food availability. Ten lbs overweight his 4 years plus girls too is a bad combination.
what i wouldn't have done to party with brie felnagle...
no seriously, i don't know what i wouldn't have done.
Cougar Boi 2938 wrote:
Not at all here at BYU... I’m guessing Air Force Academy and a few other schools (University of Utah/Southern Utah Univ.??) would be similar
I didn't run in college, but I did play rugby at University of Colorado. Nothing worse than a Saturday game at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. We'd be hung over from Friday night, dreading all those bright-eyed flat tops, knowing they were all in bed by 9 PM with a big glass of water by their beds. We'd put on a good showing into the second half and then run out of steam. But at least we got to go back to Boulder for Saturday night...
The post NCAA parties are pretty great, especially this past XC season in Evansville. Shout out to the University of Southern Indiana!
D2 XC wrote:
The post NCAA parties are pretty great, especially this past XC season in Evansville. Shout out to the University of Southern Indiana!
Yeah that party was great!
My team parties pretty hard all summer but we won't really drink at all after the first day of practice until XC ends. Same goes for indoor and outdoor. I'd imagine most programs are the same.
It's well known on LR that D3 girlies are the world champion party animals.
My college coach did a purge. He kicked partiers off the team. Alcohol is a performance inhibitor. Are you a sub-8:30 3200m runner and you think you are in charge of things? Underage drinking is the fastest way to lose your athletic grant.
Some programs have partiers and others don't. You will see a stark difference in the results too.
If you want to party like a regular college kid, then you will be a runner like a regular college kid.
If you want to be a good runner, leave the partying alone.
You do not have the proper mindset wrote:
My college coach did a purge. He kicked partiers off the team. Alcohol is a performance inhibitor. Are you a sub-8:30 3200m runner and you think you are in charge of things? Underage drinking is the fastest way to lose your athletic grant.
get real. I had times in college where I would "get serious" and cut out drinking completely for months at a time, and I always had lackluster performances compared to when I would cut loose (usually at least once or twice a week). By my junior year I would drink 3-4 beers the night before racing 14:5X (with compensating amounts of water). If anything, the key to drinking not negatively impacting your running is 1. Staying hydrated 2. Getting enough sleep. Take care of those two things, and drinking 15-20 beers a night is not a performance inhibitor.
I ran for a pretty hard-partying D1 team, so I know where you're coming from to some extent. But you're kidding yourself if you think drinking 15-20 beers a night isn't a performance inhibitor. That's one of the dumbest things I've read on these boards
Unless you go to BYU or something similar, at a minimum just about everyone will go on a 1-2 week bender after their season ends. Anyone good probably goes pretty much dry for a few months during the season, but most let loose afterwards.
Getting drunk a couple times when the season is over is definitely key to an athletes mental health. Can't be a robot all the time, you will just get burnout. A week or so of boozing and your ready to get back training hard.
duhhh wrote:
Getting drunk a couple times when the season is over is definitely key to an athletes mental health. Can't be a robot all the time, you will just get burnout. A week or so of boozing and your ready to get back training hard.
Funny that you think getting drunk is key to an athlete's mental health. I'm 26 and I've never even tasted an alcoholic beverage. Do you think that I am missing out?
I'd say 4(women)/5(men) drinks max on Friday/Saturday occasionally. Binge drinking to the point of throwing up or blacking out is not good for anyone (regularly).
observer_of_things wrote:
SeniorHsRunner wrote:
I have taken a few unofficial visits to some big ten and sec programs and I couldn’t tell if the guys parties at all? Do they ever cut loose and be like normal college kids? Thanks
I have heard D3 girls party
D3 girls train hard and party hard!
bigtool05 wrote:
Drinker of Truths wrote:
get real. I had times in college where I would "get serious" and cut out drinking completely for months at a time, and I always had lackluster performances compared to when I would cut loose (usually at least once or twice a week). By my junior year I would drink 3-4 beers the night before racing 14:5X (with compensating amounts of water). If anything, the key to drinking not negatively impacting your running is 1. Staying hydrated 2. Getting enough sleep. Take care of those two things, and drinking 15-20 beers a night is not a performance inhibitor.
I ran for a pretty hard-partying D1 team, so I know where you're coming from to some extent. But you're kidding yourself if you think drinking 15-20 beers a night isn't a performance inhibitor. That's one of the dumbest things I've read on these boards
If you ran for my coach, you would have had slippage. Your party life style would eventually become more than a rumor. Performance versus anti-social behavior. Tell me you were a sub-46 400m man in college. Tell me you were a sub-1:47 800m man in college. Tell me you were a sub-3:40 1500m man in college. If not, why would a coach want to put up with a bad role model? You are telling me you are the rare drunk who can run sub-13:30 5000m and alcohol does not affect her athletic performance? Keep whistling through the grave yard.
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One of those schools wrote:
Eleven wrote:
Yes. As an incoming freshman I wasn't sure but, yes, yes they do. On my team most people are very smart about it, and the only crazy parties are after conference.
I forget is conference that meet we train through as we ramp up for NCAAs?
You youngsters don’t run in enough meets.
Maybe, maybe not...but don't knock it till you try it.