Did you party in college?

BeastieBoy wrote:

I fought for my right dang it!

And I partied for your right to fight

I’m surprised so many drank and partied while training.

It never occurred to me at all.

I don’t recall my teammates doing that either. Not the good ones.

It was a pretty serious track school but mostly sprinters, jumpers and middle distance runners.

No long distance runners.

Partied my freshman year, and then my senior year and fifth year of school. My fifth year is when we started to go the hardest. Every Saturday we had something going on either at a teammates house or a bar in town. Friday nights were off limits as Saturday was long run day. Made some great friends and experiences that I do not regret. It’s funny because the kid that condemned us for partying...I beat him out to go to nationals....LOL

I partied all 5 years in college. I redshirted my first year, and pretty much went full degenerate, getting blackout usually twice a week. It was a fun time, I had some good experiences and some real shitty ones but I made it out okay. After freshman year, when I started competing I learned pretty quickly that I had to keep my debauchery to one night a week or I was going to burn out. I think one night a week is a good enough balance. Our xc team did a dry season my junior year and we had the worst season our team had had in like 10 years, a team that was mostly made up of upper classmen.

Partying for runners is fine as long as it's kept in moderation. The after party Saturday night after winning a big race or setting a PR is always a great one.

I partied like it was 1999 and it was only 1984.

I agree--moderation was key--I did like to hit the town but I picked my spots--I kept it on the low -down my freshman year (having to adjust to bigger course load, commuting from off-campus and making varsity) and glad that I did, since some of my friend's marks tanked; I wanted to get into med school long-term (which I did after 2 attempts), and at least I had a chance with good grades and a 5 good years of varsity running. It is challenging to balance academics, athletics and social life and quite difficult to do really well in all 3; unless you don't sleep! No regrets!

I did. Pretty hard but I also wasn’t running. That being said the track and xc drank a fair amount. I wouldn’t consider what they did as partying hard but they surely drank.

Also went to one of the most homogeneous schools in the country so everyone who went there drank.

Back in the 90s under 21 had a red stamp, over 21 a black stamp. Under 21 you rushed to bathroom to wash off stamp, then your over 21 friends would rub their stamp on your wrist.

Dime Draft on Wednesday, Thursday was start of the weekend so we all got hammered. My running sucked, got arrested for public intoxication twice and kicked off the XC team. Coach let me stay on scholarship to finish the school year. My drunk semester I actually had decent grades, 3.5, my second semester I tried to "get right with god" and had a 1.9 semester GPA. Didn't drink. But didn't go to class either lol. Not really sure what I did that semester .

Alan

I can't believe all the squares on LRC. I partied and I wish I did more of it. You can still run after college but once you're six months out, the social acceptability and attractiveness of getting drunk and going buckwild plummets off a cliff.

Ran for a highly ranked dIII team. We got after it...It’s tough to remember a non hungover Sunday long run. We had a ton of fun, but looking back I think I was mainly just an a$$hole most of the time. It led to a lot of depression issues for me and I was a borderline alcoholic. I don’t get drunk anymore and it’s amazing how good my body feels running and in life almost 15 years later. I think we would have been a much better team without the party culture, but I also think it was good to get it out of my system at a time that I didn’t have any responsibilities.

Thankfully social media didn’t exist at the time. When you go to the University of Vermont , it was practically a class. Particularly in the late 80s and early 90s. We had college bands like Phish playing downtown. Dave Matthews Band would come up from Charlottesville. Wild and simpler times. Bars had .25 cent drafts all the time and you washed it down with Nectar’s Gravy Fries.

I did, but TBH I never really liked it. It kind of felt like something I "should" do and enjoy, but it was never actually fun.

Eventually I kind of gave up on it.

Honestly the only reason I ever went out is because my roommate annoyed me about it and told me I should and that I would look back at it as "good memories." I haven't looked back at it at all and it was a waste of my life that I even did. It honestly affects you if you take it seriously and I believe that to be good you need to discipline. It's overrated too. You just go to try to get girls and it never works and you feel like garbage after and its a waste of time. Screw the party life I could care less about it. Hang with the homies and chill but man partying is stupid and its for people who aren't athletes. You made the choice to do it and im just saying if you want to be great, you can't balance both and expect to get your full self outta it. Hell why am I even wasting my time doing college sports if i'm gonna part anyway. Go make some side money, concentrate more on school and go party because that's what the NARPs do.

Nectar's gravy fries...mmmmmm.

I partied and enjoyed it. Oddly, the guys team partied WAY more than the girls team, and we were also way better. We also got a couple all americans from a nearby school to come to parties a few times. They partied harder than anyone I know.

My experience was train hard, win races, and party hard. The folks who "didn't party" were often slow and also anti-social. I honestly don't know why this was the case.

Yes. 80s

20 kegs per night @ Fraternity Fri-Sat's, with lots of weed, coke, X, mushrooms, and acid.

Got Bs, plus lots of rock climbing and raced Tri's.

Wouldn't change a thing 30 some years later.

I am from the generation where "Let's party" meant "I've got pot and let's smoke it all right now."

And also from a D1 gathering with the AD where "who here has smoked pot" meant nearly everyone raised their hands.