Boston College Training

No idea also wondering! Probably nothing!

Well whatever their women's team is doing, I'm shocked their men haven't caught onto yet lol. The contrast is hilarious. Could any of BC's women crack their men's top 7?

Boston College trains? I think they just play frisbee and go for a job once a week...

Hokie wrote:

Boston College trains? I think they just play frisbee and go for a job once a week...

I mean jog.. Though maybe they don't?

I also would like to know what Boston College does for training...so I know what NOT to do.

Bounce on their trampoline.

Friend ran there for a year I’m grad school a handful of years ago.

He said they were encouraged to hammer ever single run at 6:00 pace or faster on top of very intense workouts. He said most people were constantly battling injury, fatigue, and burnout.

He said the coach would always tell them that it’s how he trained in college and how well it worked for him and he was never injured, and it didn’t seem like he was willing to see beyond his own personal experiences.

Not a BC alum wrote:

Friend ran there for a year I’m grad school a handful of years ago.

He said they were encouraged to hammer ever single run at 6:00 pace or faster on top of very intense workouts. He said most people were constantly battling injury, fatigue, and burnout.

He said the coach would always tell them that it’s how he trained in college and how well it worked for him and he was never injured, and it didn’t seem like he was willing to see beyond his own personal experiences.

If this is Matt Kerr, he ran for Arkansas. If he's going to train them like McDonnell, he needs to recruit like McDonnell.

Their men’s team has a 4:02 and a 4:05 miler both returning and just graduated a sub-14 5k runner. They did all of that with no athletic scholarships, so I would say a pretty solid team. Their base training starts very slowly, lots of cross training and abs to start. Then work up into heavy mileage blocks.

It's a school for losers... Think about this.... Boston College could recruit the best distance runners in the world... seriously... Boston College is located at the TOP of HEARTBREAK HILL the most ICONIC and talked about vantage point on the 26.2 mile BOSTON MARATHON course.... The BOSTON MARATHON the oldest and most prestigious MARATHON run annually in the WORLD.

BOSTON COLLEGE has voluntarily elected to NOT offer scholarships to XC and has NO TRACK.... They did have a TRACK for many years but now they are in hot pursuit of an NCAA Championship in either Div1 Football or Basketball... though both Teams will never compete with the Alabama(s) or North Carolina(s) in either sport....My guess is that the Jesuits have been drinking too much Eucharistic Wine to reverse the foolishness of their Athletic Director. BC funded their Football program with $19 million in 2019 and Basketball with $5 million in 2019 and both were less than mediocre at best. Boston College awards an average of $25,000 per athlete. How hard might it be to build a pretty powerful XC Team for a few dollars? How hard mightit Consider that Northern Arizona University and Colorado dominate NCAA XC... but BC could dominate the Eastern Seaboard, Mid Atlantic and Central US. But Losers often times never recognize their potential or the intrinsic advantages of their lives and basically sleepwalk through the years...dreaming of greatness and achieving nothing... That's SOP for Boston College.

If you're a gal go ahead and run for Randy, he gets results and most of the women improve if they don't spend every Wednesday night at the bars or didn't peak as a HS freshman.

If you're a dude, DO NOT RUN FOR BC UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

Brotherhood is dead.

I think they do pretty well for zero scholarships at a very expensive private university.

The women’s training is a nightmare, I have a friend who runs there and I am beyond stunned with how they train. They get a lot of talent and just throw random workouts at them. The coach tells the entire team to run the same tempo pace, 4:35 miler-5:20 miler it doesn’t matter. Mileage is sporadic and doesn’t seem to make any sense. Pretty clear it didn’t work this year when they got rocked at ACC’s. International students usually carry a lot of the weight and get preference. If you doubt this post go to their tfrrs and see some of the regression girls have had.

I think Randy believes that he has similar runners to the ones able to run 16:45 when he does not. Sad to see many overtrain, gotta slow the workouts down.

Other than Bill MacNeill who came to BC in the Summer of 1968, they have lacked a knowledgeable and dedicated distance coach. But I view running the Boston Marathon course particularly the area surrounding Heartbreak Hill back to Wellesley College and in the opposite direction past BU to the BM Finish... and ask... seriously do you even need a Coach if you have your heart set on competing well on the BM?... For a Male Distance Athlete with BM on his radar, better that you don't get a scholarship to BC..... I went there on scholarship and I was told I would lose my scholarship if I competed in any AAU sanctioned events... only NCAA sanctioned events... B---S==T.... The BM course is a magnet for training partners.... so you don't need BC or a team... you can compete on the BM course... run on it any time day or night... there is always someone training on the BM.... For a really motivated distance runner, the disadvantages are advantages..you can do what you want to do without any BS and there are many people in the Boston road racing community that will steer you right...Good luck

I don't know how is it going with training and sports in Boston College, but studying there is quite difficult. My friend studies there and says that he is constantly overwhelmed with homework. He was constantly busy, stopped playing sports and gave up his hobbies to have time to do all the tasks, but it did not help him much. After some time, he lost motivation to study.

RicardoJacob wrote:

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However, he later found a good resource

where he collected many ideas that helped him come up with what to write in his own work. As a result, he began to perform his tasks faster and he had time for himself and his hobbies.