Tęsknota za bieganiem

[Dabek]

To przeliczanie na czas dystansu staje się odruchowe i ma związek z nałogiem jakim z pewnością jest bieganie. Ten "zapach jesieni", liście , zwierzęta i my wśród tego wszystkiego. To naprawdę piękne i sięgamy ad fontes do naszych pierwotnych korzeni- gdzie nie było ani Osamy bin Ladena ani Usamy ibn Ladina...

[Arti]

no i stało się...miałem poczekać do poniedziałku (tzw 3 tygodnie przerwy między sezonami) ale nie wytrzymałem i poszedłem dzisiaj biegać....Hurrrrrrra !!! Wreszcie...10km w lesie i co za ulga...wreszcie wznowiłem treningi (w sumie zrobiłem 2,5 tyg przerwy) No teraz już będę mógł stukać kilometry ile sił starczy Pozdrawiam !!! Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaa !

[Bartek Sz]

Arti to zacząłem tak jak ty, po 2 tygodniowej przerwie dzisiaj zrobiłem 9km. Mimo brzydkiej pogody było świetnie

P.S. Biegałem z biegaczem z forum - pozdrofka dla tego niezmordowanego runnera

(Edited by Bartek Sz at 7:41 pm on Nov. 1, 2001)

[Arti]

a jutro już kolejne kilometry ..))) hurra !!!

[herson]

 Mi zdarzyła się właśnie taka niespodziewana przerwa spowodowana najpierw kontuzją ścięgna Achillesa a jakiś czas temu "rzuciło" mi się na piętę. Chodzę na naświetlania które chyba mi pomagają i mam nadzieję, że niedługo zacznę znowu biegać  na nowo odżywając.  Rzeczywiście jak jest się uzależnionym od biegania to każda nawet najmniejsza przerwa dobija czlowieka.   Jak na razie ratuję się rowerem który trzyma mnie "w pionie".   Pozdrawiam wszystkich koztuzjowiczów i innych "uziemionych" maniaków biegania. :usmiech::usmiech::usmiech::usmiech:

[Arti]

wszystko idzie dobrze, dzisiaj kupiłem długie leginsy na jesień i zimę. Rewelacja ! dotychczas biegałem w dresie a teraz w leginsach i wiatrówce...dosłownie inna generacja, juz chyba nigdy nie będę biegał w spodniach od dresu. Dzisiaj biegłem jak struś pędziwiatr Bieganie to najwspanialsza rzecz jeśli chodzi o sport

[joycat]

Arti, jestem tego samego zdania
Nie mogê siê doczekaæ, kiedy znowu zacznê biegaæ...

[wojtek]

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What do we know about running addiction


Carolyn C. Kyle

I am going to run until I'm 90. If the weather is bad on my last day, I'll collapse and die on an indoor track. Don't let anyone try to keep me alive, Fred. Just take a pushbroom and shove me off the running surface. Then, when you have finished your run, call the coroner. (8)  
Since the "running boom" of the 1970s, much has been written regarding the psychological benefits of running, including its ability to decrease anxiety, relieve depression, and enhance physical self-esteem (1, 3, 4, 13). In recent years, however, a growing body of research has revealed that dedicated runners can become psychologically dependent and even addicted to running to a point where they experience anxiety and depression when forced to abstain from their exercise routine (3, 5, 6, 9, 13).

Sachs and Pargman (14) defined running addiction as: "dependence of a physiological and/or psychological nature, upon a regular regimen of physical activity, characterized by withdrawal symptoms after 24-36 hours." Morgan (12) described running addiction in terms of its effects on a runner's life outside of the activity:

Exercise addicts give their daily run(s) higher priority than job, family, or friends. They run first, and then, if time permits, they work, love, and socialize. And, they often exercise to the point where overuse injuries have near crippling effects, the pain becomes intolerable, and they search for the perfect shoe, orthotic, injection or psychological strategy that will enable them to run ('shoot up') again.  
Obligatory running has also been described as an "affect regulator," a means for enhancing positive affect and reducing negative affect (i.e., tension, anxiety, depression). However, the addicted runner develops a dependence on running as the exclusive method for managing negative affect (1).

The key to determining whether individuals are addicted to something (whether it be to a substance or an activity) is how they react when it is taken away from them. If running were a low-injury sport, then addicted runners might be able to continue using running as a coping mechanism without apparent physical or psychological harm. Unfortunately, because running is associated with high rates of injury and the most common running-related ailments are associated with overtraining, most habitual runners experience at least a few forced layoffs from their sport. Moreover, as running frequency and duration have been positively correlated with running addiction, marathoners and ultra-marathoners are especially vulnerable to developing a dependence on running (3, 13). For example, more than 1,000 of the 16,000 runners entered to run the 1984 New York City Marathon were forced to drop out before the race due to injuries incurred while training for it (7).

Research has shown that athletes from a wide range of sports (including distance running) suffer from depression, anxiety, and a decline in physical self-esteem when injured (10, 16). The problem with measuring the psychological effects associated with running loss in injured runners is that injury in itself is distressing to most athletes. It is thus difficult to distinguish between the psychological impact of the injury from the psychological impact of the withdrawal from running. Furthermore, running injuries vary greatly in type, severity, and duration and thus are difficult to control for in an experimental setting. Finally, research that uses injured runners to assess psychological effects of running loss is only generalizable to injured runners (2, 6). One cannot, therefore, conclude from these studies that habitual runners unable to run due to inclement weather or personal conflicts will react similarly to a loss of running.

Although a withdrawal from an addictive substance or activity is typically necessary to observe addictive behavior, most research has measured running addiction on a single occasion (usually after a race) in runners who continue to run without interruption (3, 6, 9, 11, 15). In the few exceptions, the hiatus from running was previously scheduled or of short duration (5).

In order to further address the question of how habitual runners react when unable to run for a prolonged period due to factors other than illness or injury, future running addiction research should: 1) measure addiction in healthy (rather than injured) runners during a voluntary withdrawal from running; 2) assess running addiction multiple times throughout the intervention; 3) use a 2-week (or greater) withdrawal period, more than double that of most previous research; 4) recruit competitive recreational marathoners as subjects, a prevalent, but under-researched population; and 5) employ clinical diagnostic techniques to assess the severity of psychological symptoms, including depression, anxiety and physical self-perceptions. In addition, future studies should explore effective psychological coping strategies to help habitual runners deal with an inability to run, regardless of the reason.

Furthermore, now that research has recognized running as a psychologically addictive activity (3, 5, 6, 13), additional studies should address methods for reducing the potential for running dependence and identifying characteristics of runners most at risk for developing an addiction. There are cases, for example, of former alcoholics and drug addicts who discover running only to transfer their addictive tendencies to a more socially acceptable activity. This population may be at a particular risk for developing an addiction to running as a means of coping with negative affect.

Runners can obtain many psychological and physical benefits from a regular running regimen. However, if individuals lack alternative coping strategies for managing negative affect, they may be at risk for developing a psychological dependence on running. In order to avoid running addiction, habitual runners should be encouraged to learn other techniques for reducing depression and anxiety and increasing physical self-esteem. Potential alternatives to a psychological reliance on running include: biofeedback; various relaxation techniques; meditation; and self-talk. Athletes can also seek the services of a qualified sport psychologist. If runners are prevented from running due to injury, they should be encouraged to cross-train in order to maintain both physical conditioning and psychological health until they are able to run. Finally, while addiction to other forms of exercise has not been widely studied, evidence suggests that individuals may be as susceptible to dependencies on physical activities other than running (6). Future research should therefore examine whether individuals involved in other sports and exercise may be at risk for psychological addiction.


(Edited by wojtek at 1:18 am on Nov. 21, 2001)