A quote from Today's Times
"Why do some feel the need to exercise more than others? It may be all in the Brain according to a study in Behavioural Neuroscience. Experiments with mice showed that those who ran the most had greater activity in the areas of the brain involved in craving food, drugs or sex when denied access to running wheels."
So what do you do when unable to train? Well I guess the boffins didn't offer the mice a keyboard and access to the RW Forum? :-)
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it is your picture thats giving me ideas
But then I do that anyway.
Or jump on the turbo trainer and rot my brain watching TV and waiting for the HR to go up every time someone appears on telly who annoys me....
It was George Bush last time. David Blunket has the same effect.
I swam and used the gym during my last enforced break from running.
Or if I really feel lousy, lie in bed and wonder whether somebody might be so kind as to name a race (a race which caters for very very slow runners) after me when I'm dead.
Only kidding!
I take painkillers and do less distance! Otherwise I swim, cycle and go to the gym.
I immersed myself in running literature, dreamt about the time I would be back and the things I'd do. If I got injured tomorrow I'd try and stay focussed, think about the rest my body was enjoying and set a long term target...
Then after an hour or so I'd kick the cat, shout at the kids and go and get a crate of Stella Artois.
I rarely get denied a run day to day because I make it the main thing in the day (definition of addiction acc. to another thread).
I haven't had more than a week off with injury at any one time, but I tried to do what cross-training I could and made the most of having a bit of extra free time. Even so, by the end of the week I was hitting the point where I'd have tried to run injured or not.
Last time I was near anything remotely fell-ish (Ben Nevis, end September), I swallowed pride, took the sticks, and hauled myself along gracelessly on all fours.
I just do a really nice line in melodrama when I'm suffiently poorly that I can't tie the laces and get out the door,
as you all well know by now.