How many of you are stuck in a OCD routine with your running?

Slave here. Monday/Thursday workouts. Sat or Sun for long run (Depending on races). Double 5 times a week. I go insane when I miss any run.

Hobbyjoggers at my club can't run 9.8 miles they have to jog up and down to do 10 majkt to keep garmin happy

Unfortunately I relate to this and it is makimg me depressed.

Bump to draw attention to this topic

So what, it's what I do. It could always be something worse.

This hits right in the feels. Mine is finishing total mileage for the week in numbers that end in 0 or 5. And of course every run has to be exact (no 10.2 or 7.7 mile runs that would drive me insane)

I don't have the self-discipline to be OCD.

I'm not a fan of labels nor categories, for that matter.

Lots of runners are unhealthily obsessed with their training. It's just another form of depression/mental illness. The rest of the public really doesn't give a crap if you missed your long run or speed work for the week.

What you are describing is not OCD.

Slave here too. Plan vacations or road trips with diligent scouting on where my runs will take place. I’m that guy who can’t go out on Sat night so I can rest for my long run on Sunday. Not to mention I I take a day off, I spend 3/4 of the day feeling guilty instead of enjoying the down time. It’s better than drugs or booze right?

Maybe not?

Damn you’re describing me wrote:

Slave here too. Plan vacations or road trips with diligent scouting on where my runs will take place. I’m that guy who can’t go out on Sat night so I can rest for my long run on Sunday. Not to mention I I take a day off, I spend 3/4 of the day feeling guilty instead of enjoying the down time. It’s better than drugs or booze right?

Maybe not?

Ugh right. Anything that affects my running will make me feel horrible. I avoid nights out with friends where they could be smoking, polluted areas or anything that could sabotage my fitness in even a minute way. I miss out on so much. And if I am even exposed to the slightest but of smoke, I will feel horrible about my fitness for the rest of the night or at leas until I run again.

Don't even get me started on the eating aspect of it, I do not eat anything that isn’t 100% clean food so obviously this impacts my social life and psychological state. If I don’t run I am a mess, a complete mess. I feel like a lazy slob on days I don’t do very hard workouts. Even an hour at easy pace isn’t enough. Unless I’m running for 2 hours a day or doing at least 4-5 miles of work at mile pace I feel like a greasy slob. I can literally feel the grease build up inside me.

I'm kinda like that but not as bad as I used to be.

I have to have a run that ends in a 0. If I mis-map the course and I run 5.95 instead of 6, then the next day's run has to be 6.05 to make up the difference. I'm like that with tips. If a bill is 20.83, then I tip 4.17 to get it to an even #.

But I'm not anal about running every day, and in training for Cbus, I'm learning the value of days off, easy days, and running consistently. Not going race-pace every single tempo workout. But varying it.

Distance running is a sport that requires consistency for success. I have been around and trained with a number of world class athletes. They all were relentlessly consistent about getting out the door and getting in their planned training distance. There is a fine line between optimum training and overtraining and serious athletes work constantly to stay right on that line.

Thankfully I'm free from this stuff

I had lots of little thoughts in high school and college and when a pretty hard time of my life came about those little controlling thoughts became the only thing I feel like I could control so I went into the deep end and had disordered eating and the joy got sucked out of my life. I was running a hundred to 120 miles a week, not eating enough, and constantly in extreme pain and fatigue. my performances eventually dropped and I was injured all the time. I took off of running for a while, then I jogged for a while and remembered the parts of it I loved. now I'm back in the 60-70 mile per week range and just absolutely love it, I actually feed myself enough to do 70 miles a week and I actually enjoy myself. if my life is too busy I'll run less, if it opens up I'll run more if I want to. I control it now.

Sorry for the run-on sentences.