OCD + Triathlon

[Kimmyt]

RnR you should come down to Philly for a ride sometimes and afterwords we can hit DiBruno Bros. and have a cheezgasm

[Artisan]

I find the article pretty interesting, I'll have to spend the five bucks and read it in it's entirely. I've always struggled with depression and anger. I was diagnosed bipolar a few years back. Best way for me to deal with my moods is through exercise. When I don't work out my mood starts to spiral downward.

[rocknrollgirl]

Kimmy, you are on! Mmmmmm...cheese...ah...big sigh....

Do you mt bike? We could go to Wissahickon.

[Kimmyt]

Haha I don't mountain bike so much as, 'walk my bike up hill and then slowly ride the brakes down hill'

Actually I don't even have a bike. Are you doing the Philly Tri?

K.

[margo49]

Rings true for me too.
But at a sub-clinical level. Just because one is aware of using the bike to keep one's demons under control doesn't mean one is ocd as in the clinical sense.
A lot better than some other "self-medication" I could think of (gynnantonnyx, anyone?) like wot RnR said.
As a cancer survivor I really identify with Lance A. and see some of the emotional-psychological roots of his achievements. So what? You have to get through and over that stuff somehow.
I knew a guy who was born at 27 weeks gestation weighing 1 kg / 2 lbs. He reckoned that experience, coupled with his innate personality and frequent subsequent health problems and hospitalisations, meant he met everything aggressively. Of course *without* that personality he probably would have spat the pacifier while still in the incubator.
So it's both who you are *and* what's going on in your brain chemically and electrically.
Like the song says "You can't have one without the o-o-o-ther"

[rocknrollgirl]

No Kimmy, no Philly tri for me, I am going XTerra. I am however going to take full advantage of their swim clinic.