Anyone done a complete running purge? How did it go?

i don't understand why you would feel the need to do this. if you like runninng, do it. if you don't like running, don't do it.

Yup, all the time. I oscillate between running too much and drinking/smoking too much dope. There tends to be very little overlap

Feel like the more "into" running I get the less I can enjoy it sometimes. Like I don't want to care about what a good pace for each run is or know what an elite runner training schedule looks like compared to mine. I've tried just not thinking about it but it's tough when I like following running as a sport and knowing a lot about running without it really having anything to help my own running. Kind of am waxing nostalgic about days of young, dumb training where I didn't know anything and wondered if this might be a way to get back to that in some way.

Of course, that's called vacation.

OP I know what you mean. I took close to a year off after college. It was good but I love running and got back into it. Now I still run and have a much healthier relationship. I get the miles in, do workouts when I feel like and race for fun with 0 expectations. I’ll most likely never break my college PRs. On the flip side, I party, drink, and smoke weed. I don’t care that this may make me slower. Planning to do a long run but get invited out Saturday night? Go out and party and if you still feel like running the next day do it. If not, don’t no big deal.

I'm doing a purge right now. That's why I'm on this message board. There is absolutely no way I will find any running content posted and I get to keep up with the news about out of control crime in cities, teenagers stuffing other teenagers' heads into toilets, the world cup being crammed down our throats, whether or it now it OK for men over 30 to live with their mothers or buy a house if they are single, the crash of Bud Light's business, transgender athletes dominating skibo, Lebron's school sucks at math, single women in their 40s are happy, etc.

Yes, for several weeks while trekking in Nepal. It was long before social media existed, so no problem disconnecting from everything. The challenges of hiking at very high altitudes more than made up for the non-running part.

Realized there was so irony in posting on the boards about taking time off but I figure people here have been able to detach for a while and then come back. I don't plan to give up running permanently but I do think taking a step back might be helpful.

Drinking for the third night in a row it's Monday and Tuesday beers sound like a great idea.