MikeSmith Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 HI, I am planning on going to Loughborough Uni next year, although i got a trip to there next month. Just wondering from your experiences how you found it and what are the sport facilities actually like? Word is they are brilliant! Cheers Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 what are the sport facilities actually like? Word is they are brilliant! ← English Cricket Academy, seated sports stadium used for UK events, one of the most advanced artifical water based soccer pitches in the UK, same for hockey, indoor swimming pool with seating area and touch-pad timing system, won the overall BUSA sports champs for... 26 (i think) years in a row, 1st XI football playing in the FA Cup next season, about £40million spent in the last few years, and plenty more i've missed... so its not bad! As for the rest of the place - yep, i'd recommend it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inzane_2 Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 and great night life and women! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 And tart did you use any of those facilities? Appart from of course riding on the walls arround them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deagledaddy Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 ahahah classic. Tart may well have used them during part of his degree course though! you just never know. Good knock on affect is that there are lots of gyms in town that are well priced student rates too. As well as a higher proportion of women being rather tasty too. :( Loughborough is a quality place to study, its in the top ten unis for the country any way i think.!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Walking to lectures so far ive seen, england rugby team, england men and womens cricket teams and womens england hockey team. Its mental.... love the place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuse Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 The university campus is one of the nicest in the country, and the student union is second to none. It's open basically every night of the week, and has something like 7 or 8 different bars. There's also a couple of clubs in town, and while they're nothing amazing they're decent enough if you get drunk :( The sports facilities as mentioned are amazing, but the problem is unless you're a member of one of the teams (which requires you to be bloody good at whatever it is!) you'll find it difficult to use the very best equipment. Having said that there's loads of football pitches, tennis courts, etc. and even the stuff set aside for the 'normal' student is high quality. As Josh mentioned, there's also a few gyms on campus that don't cost much to join, as well as a decent one in the local leisure centre which is also very cheap. Basically the atmosphere you get at Loughborough is pretty unique, owing to the fact that the majority of the population are students, which also gives the added bonus that there are very few chavs around. You could do a hell of a lot worse than come to Luf, I know I've never regretted choosing it. Reading back through that I sound like I'm a bloody salesman, but meh, never mind, I hope it's been helpful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 The SU is only good because there's nowhere else to go :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Basically the atmosphere you get at Loughborough is pretty unique, owing to the fact that the majority of the population are students, which also gives the added bonus that there are very few chavs around. ← Forgot about that... its VERY quiet in summer when all the students go home! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hardman Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Sounds better than Royal Holloway our on campus bars are shit although we do have the nicest looking main campus building in the form of som victorian castle thingy majig. Ill post a pic its such a nice place interms of looks. Only prob is it takes in 2/3 private school people so everones rich and stuck up Ive seen a student in a lambo here. Ther eis no nightlife her eoutside of campus but londons 30mins away I wonder if I would have been helped with my ten pin bowling if I went luth I was playing for exxex once upon a time andhad an england try out then I gave up as it got too expensive after i turned 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deagledaddy Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 [http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/map/pages/map-eastpark.html A good one to highlight some of our facilities Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.Wood Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 On a random note, wtf is a 'water based hockey pitch'? I can get the hockey bit...but water based? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexx Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Doesn't the fact it's so campus based get anoying? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on that? u must be joking Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Most non-freshers live off campus, so it doesn't get too claustrophobic thankfully. There's a few decent clubs in town anyway if you don't fancy the union, but the campus is so big it doesn't really have the chance to get annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 there is a water based astro turf pitch, which is literally as it says astro turf.. with water so it doesnt burn. theres also a rubber crumb pitch... which is like synthetic grass stuff, sept non plastic and you can use football boots etc on it. Infact i dont get how it works but it does. i havent found it claustrophobic one bit being in halls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSmith Posted May 20, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Thanks for the replies, you have all been very helpful. Sounds great! I do road racing competitively, tt's and duathlons. Are there much in the way of this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 Thanks for the replies, you have all been very helpful. Sounds great! I do road racing competitively, tt's and duathlons. Are there much in the way of this? ← There is a very active Road Racing scene in the bike club. There are Busa road races amongst a plethora of other races that the club competes in as well as weekly training rides and circuit traning. Time trials wise it is very similar with many races competed in with transport provided or arranged, also there are trips arranged to the manchester velodrome pretty regularly if that floats your boat. Next year trials rider wise there will be at least five or six of us still up here, with the probability of a few other freshers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 another roadie! there are literally billions of them around on a sunday morning you'll have no trouble getting sorted with that. You can keep your bike in your room also if you become part of the cycling society which gets a big :( :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartridge Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 I do road racing competitively, tt's and duathlons. Are there much in the way of this? ← Very much so. Theres also some sort of Triathlon Academy Centre here as well, I'll ask my mate about it... and a couple of the members are Olympic standard I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted May 20, 2005 Report Share Posted May 20, 2005 The SU is only good because there's nowhere else to go :wub: ← Haha so true :D Prob because were spoilt for choise here in manc :wub: 14 bars within 2mins walk. Double that last year (Y) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonPace Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 I am hopefully off to loughborough next year along with another guy from leeds called matt. We both ride all the time and will be taking our bikes obviously. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Awesome, look forward to seeing you guys up here then. You'll love it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeSmith Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 What grades did you guys get in your A levels, and what courses are you doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 Although It's great my brothers there. Dont go. ^_^ Na he says its pretty good, and hes quite swotty. He had quite a few choices but he chose that one :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted June 14, 2005 Report Share Posted June 14, 2005 i got BCD and doing Civil Engineering at ole lufbra Gonna be in halls again next year yay and have my car so el natural riding will be happening a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.