I'm a contributing editor of Inside Triathlon magazine, and I'm working on a piece that looks at the psychological/lifestyle basis for overtraining, as well as the immediate and long-term psychological/lifestyle effects of significantly reduced or complete ceasation of training/racing. Basically, did an initially healthy participation in endurance sports become unhealthy and corrosive in your life and what happened when you addressed this? If you or any other triathlete/endurance athlete you know has experience with any of this and would be interested in being interviewed/written about (names changed on request) please drop me an email at [email hidden].
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I'm a contributing editor of Inside Triathlon magazine, and I'm working on a piece that looks at the psychological/lifestyle basis for overtraining, as well as the immediate and long-term psychological/lifestyle effects of significantly reduced or complete ceasation of training/racing. Basically, did an initially healthy participation in endurance sports become unhealthy and corrosive in your life and what happened when you addressed this? If you or any other triathlete/endurance athlete you know has experience with any of this and would be interested in being interviewed/written about (names changed on request) please drop me an email at [email hidden].
All the best, Scott Schumaker [email hidden]
Dear Scott
I was able to lick the overtraining thing by runnning with my dog Melina. She is never in a real hurry once the first 100 yards are done.
I enter triathlons and adventure races because they are fun to be in. I gave up my dreams of hockey greatness, golf greatness and most recently a dream of a career as a 51 year old professional triathlete, and have to settle for just having a good time.
