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Everyone should keep on pushing themselves whether it's physical fitness, work, home life etc - think the essential part is to keep working on all of them.
If we don't push ourselves we get bored quickly, no matter what field it is in.
But if you're pushing like mad in your running and neglecting everything else >>> obsessed (in my book).
race over, next day there i was at my own free will out for a run,(doing 1/2 mara in 2 wks) it's not my life, i've missed lots runs due to my social life but i do get miserable if i cant run
i'd say 4/10 at push
Hate to be ill when i'm training towards something - run while im on hiliday
but i can take time of at christmas etc
Training helped me cope with depresion so its high up on my list of things im serious about
:oD
I guess the scale changes for some - my 9 out of 10 involved 60-100 mile weeks of running.
Do you get anxious if you're 5 seconds outside of your PB?
Yep, Leeds Abbey Dash this year
Or suicidal because you've not been able to train for a week because ... oh no! ... you've been on holiday?
You'll have to explain `not been able to train for a week'. Or a day...
In short, has it completely taken you over and distorted your perspective? Are you a runner who finds a bit of time to have a life also, rather than vice versa?
Again `perspective' and `have a life' are alien concepts...
Do you flounce off in a bitchy huff because people think you're "weird" and "obsessed"?
No I love it.
Let's have our own online version of Trisha? We need to, because some people on here are obsessed, methinks.
Yeah, me too. The suckers!
You don't have to be obsessed to be dedicated to running.
Do I ignore other things in my life-no
Do I ignore my family or work-no
Can I have a day off without worry-yes
A week-yes if I want one
Do I do other things-yes, but maybe don't give them as much dedication
How serious do I take running-9/10
I love it!!
Having an event to focus on certainly adds to the commitment.
i'll give training a 9/10
work only gets a 6/10
fiance definitely a 10/10!
cooking gets 10/10
maths degree a 9/10
i'm pretty busy for sure. but as i happily ignore the stuff that other people seem to think is important in life (cleaning the house, tv, football etc) i seem to get by :-)
Family 10/10
Running 10/10
Work 5/10
Other leisure stuff 3/10
In my mind I take it seriously but my body isnt that fussed.
Or maybe its the other way around. Either way I go through cycles where I am very serious about it to an almost unhealthy level to periods where it means nothing and I just cant be bothered.
A fair part of it whilst running related I guess, isn't that much to do with running though. Time spent on here, a lot of the people I chat too, for that matter a fair proportion of my better friends are runners too so odds on we're often talking about running :O). Helps having a training group with all of us 17-25.
Personally, does my work suffer because of my running? Well yes, I'm not prepared to work more than 40 hours a week as I need training time. Some might call that healthy, others negligent of my "career". Does my running cause my personal relationships to suffer? No. I'd still claim at least 9/10 for training right now though.
My younger brother plays on Diablo 2, for up to 3 hours at a go, having finished the actual game months ago he now just spends the time running around the various worlds picking up items and selling htem onto others in the virtual economy they have set up on there- to me that seems a little weird.
Other people I know watch 3-4 hours minimum of television a night, often the same programmes as they've seen before but repeats.
Yet running the most natural human activity, for 10 miles a day is weird, obsessive and strange. Funny old world isn't it :I
I think about it often, and plan my spare time around it, and even when I'm busy I'll look to fit in runs. I'm always trying to make future plans and then work accordingly to them by building up. I do have another life besides running , but running is something I've realised I'm good at and want to get much better at, by breaking times and limits.
Just now then? 8/10
I thought I could easily define "obsessed" and distinguish it from "committed", but now I'm not so sure.
Maybe you're obsessed if you put running before everything else and are deluded about what you can achieve, ie you give everything to achieve unrealistic goals.
Maybe I have too much time to think at the mo - my foot is giving me probs and haven't run for 2.5 weeks! But I don't seem that bothered! Although I'm starting to get fed up of my foot killing me.