Kerr, his fiancee and Danny Mackey have all given up alcohol for 3 months to get ready for Paris - How hard would it be for you?

I drink almost daily, but I abstained from alcohol for over a year and a half (except for 2 or 3 very special occasions) in solidarity with my wife while she was pregnant and pumping milk but couldn't drink. I'm back to drinking almost daily again, especially since the pandemic when I had to work while watching my kid at home while my wife worked away from home. I have read enough (ahm... selectively chosen) medical journal articles to believe that it's benefitting my life and running...

That being said, I have chosen to ignore the fact that based on my data, I ran shockingly very well during the abstinence despite the sleep deprivation and stress. I haven't raced in over a decade, though, so it doesn't really matter.

Daily...

Not hard at all. I'm going on year 6 of not having a drop of alcohol and I've never felt better. Scientists are finding there is no positive effects of alcohol whatsoever. Positive effects previously considered heaven proven to come from the non-alcohol parts the drink.

been 34 years now. showed up late to join my drinking buddies, realized what fools we looked like. probably saved 10s of thousands of dollars over the years. drinking should go the way of smoking.

I read an article years ago in JAMA that it was one said if you knew the way syphilis affected every tissue in the body you knew medicine. Went on to say that that disease was rarer today so the study of alcohol on the tissues replaced it in overall studies. Sidebar related that many middle aged men were having hip replacements. These men had had no accidents that would indicate a hip energy. As it turns out the alcohol was killing the marrow in that bone that ties the femur to the ball joint.

I would have to PB at the 1500 m by about one minute if I were to be able to get ready for Paris. Think it would be hard.

I do it several times a year without even thinking about it.

If you want to thump the Bible Luke 22:18 quotes Jesus as saying he would no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God is established.

He’s Scottish. Sobriety is a major achievement!

Fixed it for you.

0.8BAC/10 for the attempt. You squandered the opportunity to use letsrun addiction.

If I really believed not drinking would make doing well in a particular race I'd have no problem doing it. But I'd see no reason why anyone else needed to do it. And if I thought not drinking would make me race better I wouldn't do it at all at least at times of the year when I was racing. As it is, I've never seen anything that convinces me that not drinking does anything to help someone race better and personally found that a lot of beer done after hard or long runs seemed to make me recover faster. So it probably would be hard for me to do because it seems pointless.

Am I the only person who did the opposite? Drinking alone in my apartment, and subsequently not enjoying it, made me realize I was primarily a social drinker.

Thank you very much for sharing the article. I'm like so touched and so tearing up and all because I read the entire article and found out true to my suspicion about UK folks in general that they are so charming, so sweet and endearing both as a human being person as well as a value and ethic.

It's what I have always known about UK people, they are just such delightful human beings and I don't want to sound like I'm a walking UK advertisement or anything but I say this sincerely from the truest bottom of my heart!!!!!!!!

When his daddy John comments ".....Josh Kerr always helps out no matter what....." I thought he was such a filial and loving son to mummy and daddy and I feel like American sons and people in general do far worse in terms of filial piety let alone other areas of morality like sexual purity etc. A filial MAN is my number 1 affection, really!!!!!!!!!

It's the most important thing I look for in a man, really!!!!!!! The values and qualities of knighthood, of being a masculine man hinges at its root in FILIAL PIETY or sworn love for mummy and daddy, that's what it's all about man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't care that Josh Kerr is the next Olympic champion in the 1500m, I care that he is filial to mummy and daddy. Whereas for Jakob Ingebrigtsen I see only the exact opposite!!! I see a fragmented family, a dissing, a scorning, a hatred, a disdain for Daddy Gjert and to some extent even Mummy!!!!!!! I don't see a whole family unit where the parts of it unite and stand as ONE body of protection and defense for one another!!!!!!

I'm not criticizing Jakob or anything, but the familial differences are so shockingly glaring between him and Josh Kerr and it needs to be highlighted and pointed out for the purposes of edification, you feeling me all LRCers?????????

I mean I'm just distraught at how conservative UK families like Josh Kerr's and Jake Wightman's can be so much more pious, obedient and faithful to one another than those from wildhorse France, America and Norway!!!!!!!! Even Swedish families are nowhere near as devoted and and faithful to one another as UK families I feel.

UK TO THE WESTERN WORLD AS THE GREATEST CULTURE, FAMILY, HISTORY, MORALITY, ETHICS OF ALL SPACE-TIME!!!!!

And that's why UK has the most number of RF Physics geniuses or Nobel Prize Laureates!!!

Cheers really!!!!

runnersworld.com

Josh Kerr: ‘I don’t believe anyone’s good enough to beat me on 6 August'

The 26-year-old also set a two-mile indoor world record in New York

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This would be hard for most Americans:

10% of Americans are alchoholic

33% are classified as excessive drinkers.

63% drink on a rgeular basis.

Bit of a late reply to this but Josh Kerr has no TUEs (or missed tests/filing failures) - he's posted screenshots of his ADAMS app to his Instagram story semi-recently proving this.