Stop refering to yourself as "Former D1". It is not impressive.

I work at a Fortune 100.

"Former D1" is very impressive. We don't hire D2 at all, and an occasional D3.

EastD1 wrote:

I work at a Fortune 100.

"Former D1" is very impressive. We don't hire D2 at all, and an occasional D3.

Everyone here loves to kick NCAA D-2 runners. Posters who did not run at all in college love to kick D-2 runners. At D-1 universities, there are usually more JV runners than varsity runners. That means at least half of you D-1 runners looking down upon D-2 runners were slappy JV guys. [Slappy: Someone who slaps the backs of varsity athletes.] I am proud to say I was a former D-2 runner. I am proud to say I was varsity day one.

I used to run D1 college.

I had a 3:32 mile, (calculated based on a 400M race, I felt really good so I could probably hold it for a mile)

1:36 800 (Relay split of course)

41.xx 400 (ran during repeats)

and a 19:59 8k.

I never did long jump, but when I was in elementary and the road was hot during the summer, I would effortlessly jump from one side of the road to the other to avoid burning my feet.

If you cant run under 4:00 for the mile, you shouldn't be in college. And that's the truth. All these:

"My pR iS 4:09 in ThE MiLe iS thAt goOd?"

Why don't you ask all of your JV peers and stop begging for validation.

On my D1 team we had a guy that ran a 1:46 800M have the audacity to try out for the team, he literally got cut half way through the first practice because he was failing to hit the 200m repeats in under 21 seconds. WHAT A JOKE!

I can literally bench press 458.6 pounds 10 times in a row, that's even more than you eat in a day, you fat lard.

You sound like you’d be in D10” amirite?

I ran my first 2 years in D1, made it to the Western Preliminaries (barely) as a sophomore. Transferred to D2 and made All-American as a junior and senior. I personally wasn’t ever good enough to go to D1 nationals. D1 Nationals are much deeper than D2, but at the highest level at least, D2 is actually closing the gap a bit- for example, in last year’s outdoor meet there was a 70 shot putter and three 8 meter long jumpers.

If I were trying to impress people with my athletic accomplishments, I would refer to myself as a “D2 All-American”, rather than “former D1”.

One other point: An earlier poster wondered whether qualifying for the Regional meets (actually the Eastern or Western Regionals) shouldn’t actually be considered “Nationals” since they are not really separate full competitions, rather, they simply pare the field down to semi-finals. This is a valid point. The reason I think it should not be is that we think of elite, national class athletes as the top 25 in the country (top 24 go to the National meet) so people like me who were ranked in the 90’s in D1 really aren’t in that league.

Ah but do you have the high 6 figure salary and the model hot wife/girlfriend to complete the LetsRun triple?

Oh, yeah, I forgot about this thread - one of my more successful troll attempts.

You know a troll is good when, after outing yourself as a troll, people still can't help but to reply.

10/10 for me! Troll win!

I use "ex-D1" myself, seems much better.

There, is that better?