Time to grow up and spend time on your home and family. I was in similar situation years ago. Wife was starting to get annoyed by my running so I backed off, ran less, stopped racing, worked on my career, bought house, had kids. Life became BETTER when I lost the compulsion to work for PRs. I love my wife. She was right.
sound to me you are BONKING your running pawl
I apologize for my crappy thread.
Need pics of the wife to determine if she is worth putting up with.
"Time to grow up and spend time on your home and family. I was in similar situation years ago. Wife was starting to get annoyed by my running so I backed off, ran less, stopped racing, worked on my career, bought house, had kids. Life became BETTER when I lost the compulsion to work for PRs. I love my wife. She was right."
This. Unless you are potentially Olympic caliber, it is foolish to expect everyone around you to take a back seat to your running. I saw numerous people make the same mistake back in my 20's and end up losing their wives and never establishing a good career. Now in their 50's and in a dead end job. You can still run but it should be in balance with the rest of your life.
Any Which Way But Loose wrote:
Troubled Man!!! wrote:***Update***
My wife has put us on a trial separation with one condition being that I cut back on running.
Maybe this is the excuse I need to wind my way back into non-running reality.
As for all of you calling this BS, then I know I'm not the only one whose marriage has taken a blow bc of running.
If running has seemed to cause this to happen, then running is not really the issue in your relationship.
Either you trust your spouse, or you don't.
I can only figure the attrition rate of marriages where one spouse is a triathlete is rather high- among various circles of friends in that situation, I know of 3 divorces. Has anyone else noticed that?
Zak wrote:
I can only figure the attrition rate of marriages where one spouse is a triathlete is rather high- among various circles of friends in that situation, I know of 3 divorces. Has anyone else noticed that?
Given about half of all marriages fail it's probably not a cause.
Troubled Man!!! wrote:
I apologize for my crappy thread.
Don't apologize. It may have been a 3/10, but I thought the whole Bonk of England thing helped bring it to at least a 5/10. Better luck next time.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year