runningart: So when do spend time with your wife and kids? Also, it must be nice to be able to shower, eat and commute in 45 minutes. Many people can't commute in 45 minutes.
So there you have it, folks, if you JUST want to work, eat, run and sleep, and don't want to spend time doing anything else, there you go.
ok folks lets settle it now. can someone arrange another interview with stamps so she can provide a minute by minute description of her day? Then maybe we can get an alalysis of the answer from a registered psychologist. I just read the interview and she sounded pretty perky and optimistic about what she was doing as well as what she has done in the past. So why all the concern about how one spreads the hours in a day out? I think the interview alluded to the fact that one could run well if they were willing to spend the time, were healthy, and really loved running and were willing to sacrifice other things. She never stated that she was planning on continuing in the sport right now at a competitive level, just the level that she was comfortable with at this time in her life. Seems pretty realistic and well adjusted in my opinion. After her accident, I would bet she is thrilled to be able to continue many athletic endeavors in such a short period of time. Sounded like a nasty injury.
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As a longtime traveler, I first became aware that the United States wasn't number one in everything after encountering far too many Germans, Brits, and Danes gallivanting the globe for five and six weeks a year.
Meanwhile, we are spending more time on the job than in past decades. The husband and wife in a typical U.S. household are now working 500 more hours a year than they did in 1980, according to Eileen Appelbaum, research director at the Economic Policy Institute. Absenteeism due to job stress has tripled in the past five years. So has the number of people calling in sick who aren't, a phenomenon called "entitlement mentality": Workers are using sick time to take the days off they feel they deserve.
Clearly, we have hit the wall. If we have no time for family and friends, no time to enjoy, explore, refresh, and recreate, no time to think that there could be, should be something more, what exactly do we have?
One tired nation. Estimates are that about half of all U.S. workers suffer from symptoms of burnout. Pam Ammondson, author of Clarity Quest (Fireside, 1999), sees the wreckage in her Santa Rosa, California-based Clarity Quest workshops, designed to help people suffering from burnout reclaim their lives: "I see a lot of people who work 12 to 14 hours a day routinely," she says. "They want to make a change, but they're too tired to know how to do it. Overwhelmed is a word they use a lot. . . . We allow downtime for machinery for maintenance and repair, but we don't allow it for the employees."
"Not Impressed",
I have some questions for you regarding the teaching/running thing. I'm supposed to start doing that full-time this fall and wanted to ask you a few questions. One of the things I'm worried about is being worn out from work and not having the time/energy to put into the running (especially during the first year). If you could email me, that'd be cool. Thanks.
SJQ
Stamps is obviously a very busy gal, wasting no time at all. She does a heck of a lot more than just work and run. Check out this article from last summer.
WASTING TIME IS NOT AN OPTION FOR STAMPS
Published on July 17, 2001
© 2001- The Press Democrat
BYLINE: Bob Padecky
PAGE: C1
COLUMN: Bob Padecky
A rolling stone gathers no moss and neither does 22-year-old Julia Stamps: sky-diver, snow skier, water skier, scuba diver, surfer, hunter, fisherwoman, rock climber, Congressional intern, four-time All-American runner, owner of a bachelor's degree in sociology from Stanford and a few units away from earning her master's degree in the same discipline, traveler to New Zealand in December to work with local governments, contemplating either Stanford Law School or her doctorate in sociology while planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro sometime next spring.
And in her spare time, she's learning open heart surgery. OK, OK, the Santa Rosa native is not learning open heart surgery, although it is a shame because Julia does have four minutes on Tuesday and six minutes on Friday when she isn't doing anything.
``I don't know where she gets her energy,'' said her mom, Valerie. ``It isn't from Dan or me.'' That's because Valerie and Dan Stamps sleep and don't have a nuclear reactor as a power source.
Oh, and by the way, Julia is recovering from a broken leg, which will prevent her from competitive running for two years.
``She is doing things to fill the void,'' said mom, making what may be the mother of all understatements.
The void began March 12 when she suffered a compound fracture of her left foot in a skateboarding accident. ``It was like taking a broom handle and snapping it in half,'' her mom said.
Her running career -- Stamps was touted once as being America's next Mary Decker -- is in mothballs. Her last competitive race was November 1999. It will be, she said, 2003 before she can race again. Did Stamps, a running junkie if there ever was one, climb into bed and pull the covers of depression over her, knowing it would be close to four years between races?
``If you fall off the horse,'' Stamps said, ``get back up.''
Her left leg still in a halo cast that has four screws and 15 pins secured to her limb, Stamps announced to her parents she wanted to work for a congressman during the summer. ``Dan rolls his eyes,'' said Valerie, ``and says, `That's sweet, honey.' A month later, it's done.''
Jim Ryun, the former celebrated U.S. miler, is now a Republican representing a Kansas House district. He and his two sons, also runners, had met Stamps and become friends with her as she traveled to track meets nationwide. Ryun befriends athletes who have brains. Julia Stamps is now in Congress, been to the White House, met President Bush last Friday.
``How is your leg?'' Bush asked after noticing her cast.
Stamps has gathered information for Ryun on Native American water rights and stem-cell research. She gladly accepts her role as political ``gofer'' with an occasional perk: Stamps was given a special pass to sit on the White House lawn and enjoy the Capitol's Fourth of July fireworks display.
``Am I as satisfied (as running)?'' Stamps said from Washington. ``I feel enjoyment. I want to return to running. I'll only do that if I can compete at the same level or beyond. Otherwise, I'll become a recreational runner. I always knew there was a world out there besides running. Now I'm experiencing it. Wow, it's pretty incredible.''
In some ways Julia Stamps is running as fast as she always has. Her mother describes an e-mail she received this week from her daughter about her trip abroad later this year. ``Mom,'' she writes, ``I just want to run my itinerary by you.' One week in Honolulu. Two weeks in Christchurch (New Zealand). Four weeks in Westport (N.Z.). Three days in Fiji. Three days in the Cook Islands. Two weeks in Tanzania. One week in Berlin. One week in Barcelona. One week in Milan. Sometime soon I'm going to make an appointment to get my teeth cleaned.''
No word yet on where that might happen. Most likely, though, it will be after Fiji but before Barcelona.