addiction?

lets be honest.
i've just got into this. I did loads over the last 30 hours or so. Its now saturday. 1.34am and I want to run. or bike. its like 5f out ther but I still want to do it. What will I be like when its warm enough to go out there!! Oh yeah - its a rest day here as well!!! arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgggggggghhhhhhhh

its all you fault!!!!!!!!1

Down boy DOWN!!! Ron has created a bunch of TRI-MONSTERS!!!!

LMAO - yeah - too right. xmas 2004 at rons place - BYO bike trainer and fruit shake!!

OOOO i am soooo there!

OK -on a serious note about addiction - I've just quit smoking which is a huge addiction and has a hold on many people. In the course of my quitting smoking I got a huge amount of info about addiction that I'd be willing to discuss in it was wanted. however I'm away for a week and maybe doing 18 hour plus days for the next month - but I'd be willing to do what I could if if was worth it.

if someone wants it then I'd kick off a discussion about addictive personalities.

If you dont want to open up then send me a private message and I'll start the discusiion and never refernce you.

Oh by the way - My name is Mike and I am a nicotine addict. I haven't used nicotine for 6 months and I never intend to use it again.

Ahhh the evil nicotine!! Well.. I am an ex-smoker too! I smoked 2 packs a day for 3 years! YUCK! I have been smoke free now for almost 2 ½ years. I also use to be a heavy drinker, smoking and drinking go hand and hand! Smoke in one beer in the other! And I quit drinking the same time. It was to hard for me to have a beer and not want to kill for a cigarette! So they both went out the door! And then I turned my addiction to computers, and that one is now cured. When I first built my computer I would spend 16 hours a day no problem playing games online. Wow.. my wife was about to kill me! And now I am getting addicted to this tri stuff! But finally this will be something that will have a very positive effect on me. I wouldn’t really call it an addiction, maybe a life style adjustment! Jack.

Edited by JaWaLav 2004-01-30 11:04 PM

naturally I just have to jump in too. I quit smoking about 19 years ago, having started at the ripe 'ol age of 12 and smoked for about 10 years. (you don't want to know about the other stuff I was into by 13) While drugs and alcohol were never my addiction of choice, food was and always will be I guess. Only recently I started attending OA meetings because my life was revolving around food and that was/is unacceptable to me. OA is like any other 12 step program, it works if you work it and I was at a point where my life depended on working it. So I am working it, every day. When I use fitday I log in my 3 meals for the day, and I usually do it long before I have eaten any of it. That's the plan for the day and I stick to it. I know now that I need this program in my life if I want to be free of the addiction to food and avoid other possible addictions.

I think it is my compulsive/addictive personality which makes triathlon perfect for me. How else would you explain getting up at 4AM to work out before going to school? Or that I am up at 6 on a saturday morning to work out when I have all day?

Jack, thanks for starting this thread.

;-)

Oh Boy Ellen -- I can echo so much of what you say!!!!!!

Quit smoking at least 30 years ago, quit drinking about 12 years ago. Both were big time addictions for me. Although it was not easy at first, once quit, I had and have no desire for either. Now eating on the other hand is a different storty. I cannot quit eating!!! And it remains a struggle for me.

Exercise has *always* been another addiction for my life. That part did and does help balance out the bad parts (a little). So, naturally triathlons attract this addictive personality as well.

When I feel that uncontrollable urge to exercise on my "rest day", I do go ahead a do something. I jsut do a low energy, peaceful something -- A nice walk or easy hike in the woods, a carefree, slow bike ride with lots of stops, a short kayak paddle on a calm lake. I don't believe rest days have to be no activity days, just not hard training days. And I usually (I guess always) do these thing with someone -- family or friend -- and have great times with them.

My 2 cents, Nancy

I made the error of letting training take over my life last year, and suffered for it!! Now I tell myself over and over that my rest times are really what are making me stronger, after the stress has been applied. I had to re-train that little voice in my head, and for the longest time, it would not listen to my body!
Endorphins are addictive, aren't they?

JB

I can jump on this band wagon or should I say scratch kick and crawl on. I love food as my biggest vice. My other problem has always been inertia . I still eat worse than I should by my overall energy is up and I am helping my wife around the house more than I did. I know empting the diswasher dosn't constitute cleaning the house. In reagards to addiction I have come to a conclusion. When it is bad for you you are addicted, when it is good for you you are DRIVEN. I am using two dates a year at this time for tri races to keep me driven long term. I am not working out like I would like to but I am doing more than I have in 10 years. Keep up the good work all you tri junkies.

Joe

haha lol i had a tri craving today as well, i was at the beach today with some friends and there were people running up the beach, it just made me 'itch' to run. argh i caved into my craving and ended up running (even though it is a rest day) for about 6km on the soft sand, now i have shin splints haha serves me right

Hello my name is Ryan, and I may be addicted to triathlon message boards, triathlon training, and triathlon information.

They say denial is a symptom, but I don't really have a problem.

I'm like a kid with a new toy with this triathlon stuff.

I should ween myself off of triathlon stuff by watching insane amounts of reality TV and bag after bag of doritos & oreos.

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On a serious note, I'd just love it if it weren't below zero windchill. I could feed my addiction with long bike rides and endless runs. Pure bliss.

Actually, I seem to be one of the few that actually likes swimming best.

Joe,
when I go to OA meetings I am surprised at the number of men in attendance. I always thought of food as a women's issue....you know, I'm a woman, woman usually do the cooking....that line of thinking. Boy was I wrong. Men struggle with this issue every bit as much as women do and that is an eye-opening realization for me.

I do like you definition of addiction and Driven! works for me!

CAN I JUMP ON THIS BAND WAGON? I can easily call what I have with triathlons an addiction- a healthy one at that. I got seriously injured and went through ALL the classic signs of withdrawel when I couldn't consistently exercise/train for a VERY LONG TIME [i don't even have them memorized but it was denial, withdrawl, moodiness, depression/hopelessness/self absorption, acceptance]. MAybe this was more of a grieving process?? Whatever it was- it was the worst time of my life. But now, i'm slowly getting back into things- and even though it's crap weather, I'm happier than a fish in water! I love and am proud to be as addicted to triathlons as I believe I am!