Subject: RE: cathrone's Group - CLOSEDHey everyone,
I know I haven't posted in a long time and haven't been entering any logs for a while now (haven't really even been frequenting the site to be honest ) and thought I would offer a little bit of an explanation for why this is the case. First of all I'd like to say how great of a group we have here and how much I appreciate all the support everyone gives to one another and that has been given in my direction too, its great to know there's others out there grinding it out like you and pulling for you in your corner too. But the main reason I wrote is to let you all know that I needed to take a break from training to sort out some personal things and will not be competing in another triathlon for a little while now. It isn't that I didn't enjoy my first tri experience (in fact I loved it and had an absolute blast ) or wasn't enjoying the training, I just started to realize that I was kind of being motivated in my training for some wrong reasons and need to resolve some things for myself. I have been battling what I guess could be called an eating disorder for about a year and half (almost 2 ) and kind of realized that training in a way was just allowing me a way to justify working out constantly. SO although I really enjoyed all the training I did (and still am getting good exercise ) I was never eating enough and constantly feeling somewhat run down, tired, fatigued, and near sick at times too. I figured in order to sort out the eating disorder and take care of my health it was necessary to put training and triathlons on the back burner and focus on all of this. So I hate to bore I all of you with these details, but since everyone was so supportive I felt I would at least offer somewhat of an explanation.
Again thanks a lot for any encouragement offered my way and I wish all of you the best luck as you continue in your training. I hope to be able to return to the sport of triathlon sometime and hope that when I do I feel much stronger and more focused on it for the right reasons. Take Care, Joe. |