I do know "family" men who are just average triathletes who train far too obsessively to the point where they check out of family functions and other important things. I don't agree with this but it's not my life and really none of my business.
Well, it's just sad and certainly erodes healthy, functional family, community, and society. There's a happy medium to anything, even if it's a passion and even if it had some benefit to family, community, and society. People who are running away from a balanced life are trying to run away from something inside themselves.
Yep. Or they are just extremely self-centered. I am friends a with few cyclists/triathletes in their 40's who will bail on Saturday morning and bike for 4-5 hours and then hit up a brewery for another 2 hours before coming back to their families, or flat out just not show up (or show up late) to weekend birthday parties for our kids because they need to "get their ride in."
Last year (about 15 months into running) I was doing 70 miles a week at 8 minute miles and could run a mediocre 38 10K and about 18:30. Down the line I dropped down to 40 miles per week, did workouts each week and improved a lot. Whilst mileage helped it never seemed to help as much as I have read on here.
Well, it's just sad and certainly erodes healthy, functional family, community, and society. There's a happy medium to anything, even if it's a passion and even if it had some benefit to family, community, and society. People who are running away from a balanced life are trying to run away from something inside themselves.
Yep. Or they are just extremely self-centered. I am friends a with few cyclists/triathletes in their 40's who will bail on Saturday morning and bike for 4-5 hours and then hit up a brewery for another 2 hours before coming back to their families, or flat out just not show up (or show up late) to weekend birthday parties for our kids because they need to "get their ride in."
Which is why running is a much better activity to fit around life and not be all consuming. you can be decent locally running an hour a day. The cyclists I know are out there for hours and hours. I could never understand cycling for that reason.
Yep. Or they are just extremely self-centered. I am friends a with few cyclists/triathletes in their 40's who will bail on Saturday morning and bike for 4-5 hours and then hit up a brewery for another 2 hours before coming back to their families, or flat out just not show up (or show up late) to weekend birthday parties for our kids because they need to "get their ride in."
Which is why running is a much better activity to fit around life and not be all consuming. you can be decent locally running an hour a day. The cyclists I know are out there for hours and hours. I could never understand cycling for that reason.
I like to do a bit of fair weather cycling. My idea of a good bike ride on a perfect summer day is morning till evening. 10 hours, 8 of it in the saddle, lots of hills, thousands of feet of climbing and descending.
Last year (about 15 months into running) I was doing 70 miles a week at 8 minute miles and could run a mediocre 38 10K and about 18:30. Down the line I dropped down to 40 miles per week, did workouts each week and improved a lot. Whilst mileage helped it never seemed to help as much as I have read on here.
Not sure why I got the downvote but it's true. There are so many in my local area who can run good times on "as little" as 35-40 miles per week... I'm talking 15-16 minute 5K and 32-34 minute 10K. It is stupid to try and run high mileage without first becoming efficient and getting good times on the board. This forum is such an echo chamber. So many on here question why they aren't improving even though they are running lots of miles every week...
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