Friday, January 29, 2010

Too much of anything

I was wrong. I thought if you loved something enough you could keep on doing it without burning out. Good concept, but it violates the old cliche that too much of anything is bad for you.

After the marathon I kept on going. The following week I went straight to winter conditioning for triathlons. I was doing up to 14 workout hours a week. I believed since I enjoyed it so much I could keep on doing it which was theoretically correct. Problem was a little bit of the way I'm built.

I've always been the type of person who zeroed in on something and got completely focused. It's one of my greatest strengths but also one of my greatest weaknesses. My wife often tells people that I forget to eat sometimes.

So I was doing too much of training and forgetting some of my favorite things like hanging out with friends. We used to have people over quite regularly but this stopped because I wanted to wake up early for training.

It's important to find and maintain the balance.