and by obsessed I mean not merely in love with the running, but that it is the CENTER of your life
and by obsessed I mean not merely in love with the running, but that it is the CENTER of your life
Indirectly. Looking for a decent desk job at altitude is the center of my life now. The only reason I care about the altitude is so I could break my PR's, and I want a desk job so I have enough energy to put in the miles.
Of course.
Pretty well, once upon a time.
Maybe not exactly the CENTRE of my life but took preference over everything else, took a sudden death in the family to get me to look at life with a different view.
Yeah, in high school for a while.
Yes and I am really bad at it too, completely pathetic.
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victoria, b.c., canada, runner wrote:
Maybe not exactly the CENTRE of my life but took preference over everything else, took a sudden death in the family to get me to look at life with a different view.
Hey, this is from Vancouver Island, BC, not Vancouver, Washington.
yeah right now
i was completely obsessed from the age of 14 through 25. i'm 30 now and can't even begin to understand why i used to think a bad race was the end of the world or why getting injured used to make me suicidal. thank god i grew out of that phase of my life and appreciate a bit more of what life has to offer.
never. not even close. I sometimes wonder if I could have been a good runner if I was more dedicated. But I just don't feel the need to pour my heart and soul into running around an oval really fast. Perhaps if I thought I had a real shot at something big like the Olympics. But I don't think that was ever in the cards no matter how hard I work. For me, running is just a fun pasttime and a good way to stay healthy. And racing from time to time keeps things interesting. Plus I like to casually follow the goings on of the track and field world.
I know a few of you will probably say that guys like me are ruining the sport. All I can say is that I appreciate runners who are hardcore and committed (unless it's at the expense of failed marriages, neglected kids, social isolation, etc), but it just doesn't take priority for me.
OCD wrote:
and by obsessed I mean not merely in love with the running, but that it is the CENTER of your life
Oh gosh, no, never! No, career and life always came first. Absolutely.
And OJ didn't do it.
Seriously, and I hate to admit it, running was just about an obsession for me for the best part of 25 years. A 2001 injury, whereupon I missed my first track season (2002) since 1974, and came back as a much slower runner, gave me some clarity.
And then I got married! :)
I can honestly say now, without any hesitation whatsoever, that my life contains so many more interests, ever since running stopped being the center of my universe. I've discovered so much in the last 5 years.
I'm not saying this obsession was a bad thing. It was a "healthy" obsession for the most part.
If your reading this then you are
Jcritel wrote:
If your reading this then you are
actually, simply being a frequent poster on letsrun doesn't necessarily indicate that you are obsessed with running. It could also mean:
A). Rather than being obsessed with the actual physical activity of running, you are obsessed with discussing and reading about the sport much the same way your average football, baseball, or basketball fans do. You know, they have more head knowledge of the sport than any person should, but they aren't necessarily any good at said sport.
B). You are obsessed with the internet and communicating with anonymous posters, and the fact that you like running makes letsrun as good a forum as any to satisfy this obsession. You're probably here because you can be someone in this forum that you can't be in real life.
Long distance running has to be a form of OCD, some just know how to control it better than others. I mean, do you really think running so many miles every day is "normal?" No it is not normal, but that's also what makes it so great.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Long distance running has to be a form of OCD, some just know how to control it better than others. I mean, do you really think running so many miles every day is "normal?" No it is not normal, but that's also what makes it so great.
Then there are posers like txRUNNERgirl who don't even run that much because they're constantly injured/don't know how to train and want to give off that crazy runner persona.
Poser? Why the hell would anyone want to to pose as a crazy runner? Don't flatter yourself. I can defend my insanity.
I was obsessed with running my freshmen year of high school through my junior year. I would sit in class not aware of what the teacher was saying and I would just visualize myself running a pr at an upcoming race. Oh yes and I didn't mind getting up an hour early on weekdays to run before school! At the time it seemed perectly normal to do this on a regular basis. Looking back now I wonder what the hell I was thinking. I think people should care about their running but not be to obsessed with it like many of us were or are..
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