Running Every Day -- For 25 Years
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deepbluex posted 1 year ago.
It sounds more like an addictive compulsion than a health-affirming lifestyle to me.
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PJT posted 1 year ago.
Can it be both?
I'll confess I had a similar thought--the guy really sounds like he could have used a few days of rest here and there. Then I remembered Kona's line about not having to defend your passions...so I'll refrain from judging and just hope that I have the discipline to stay committed to exercise for the next 25 years (though I guarantee I will take days off).
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
Roger that, deepbluex!
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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Beldrueger posted 1 year ago.
Flawed logic PJT. Besides, defending your passions forces you to be self-aware. What's wrong with that? As triathletes, I think we owe it to ourselves to be able rationalize and balance these selfish pursuits. If our interests become self-destructive through effects on friends, family, work, or self, we need to be self-aware enough to stop, take notice, and re-prioritize. This individual's actions sound self-destructive to me.
It may be a fuzzy line to cross between passion and obsession. Everyone may put the line in a different spot. By my measure he is miles past the threshold of obsession, and I don't think you'll find too many people other than a few Ironman hyper-complsives who see this as a healthy individual.
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Jesse posted 1 year ago.
"When his pulse registered an ultra-low 45 beats per minute after his first transient ischemic attack, a paramedic explained to another that Chandler was a jogger."
..strange guy, yes, but 45 isn't that low... at least among the tri crowd.
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PJT posted 1 year ago.
Beldrueger wrote:
Flawed logic PJT. Besides, defending your passions forces you to be self-aware. What's wrong with that? As triathletes, I think we owe it to ourselves to be able rationalize and balance these selfish pursuits. If our interests become self-destructive through effects on friends, family, work, or self, we need to be self-aware enough to stop, take notice, and re-prioritize. This individual's actions sound self-destructive to me.It may be a fuzzy line to cross between passion and obsession. Everyone may put the line in a different spot. By my measure he is miles past the threshold of obsession, and I don't think you'll find too many people other than a few Ironman hyper-complsives who see this as a healthy individual.
B--I agree that when we become self-destructive, we need to reassess what we are doing. The writer of the story certainly did his best to work that angle. But you make a judgement call here too -- that his actions sound OCD (didn't we have a thread about that a while ago?) and self-destructive. I agree that they sound compulsive--though I'll leave the diagnosis to the doctors. Maybe they are destructive, but maybe his running makes him happy, keeps him alive, whatever, in a way we cannot understand because we're not in his shoes (thankfully). That's all I'm saying.
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
You should never have to defend your passion...but you should always be aware that your passion may be difficult for others or harmful for yourself. At the point you are making life difficult for others and/or harming yourself, you have passed into addiction.Despite what we think, and joke about, addiction to athletics can be just as destructive as an addiction to alcohol or what not. I've seen it. Broken relationships,twisted egos, physical damage beyond repair, a hyper focused,one dimensional human being.
Balance is the key. It is what we all should strive for.
It takes more courage, I feel, to say "Not today" "Not this race"
because of injury or commitment than it does to go ahead and do it.
This guy is wrapped way too tight.
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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SundayND posted 1 year ago.
Hmm. Maybe that will be me one day...as soon as I have a couple of titanium knees.
I pity da fool!
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ggalvao posted 1 year ago.
Jesse wrote:
"When his pulse registered an ultra-low 45 beats per minute after his first transient ischemic attack, a paramedic explained to another that Chandler was a jogger."..strange guy, yes, but 45 isn't that low... at least among the tri crowd.
I thought that rather strange, too. When I had only 1 year of cycling I had a pulse of 48 already... And I'm 24!
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http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=481575
Wow.