I drink almost daily, but I abstained from alcohol for over a year and a half (except for 2 or 3 very special occasions) in solidarity with my wife while she was pregnant and pumping milk but couldn't drink. I'm back to drinking almost daily again, especially since the pandemic when I had to work while watching my kid at home while my wife worked away from home. I have read enough (ahm... selectively chosen) medical journal articles to believe that it's benefitting my life and running...
That being said, I have chosen to ignore the fact that based on my data, I ran shockingly very well during the abstinence despite the sleep deprivation and stress. I haven't raced in over a decade, though, so it doesn't really matter.
Not hard at all. I'm going on year 6 of not having a drop of alcohol and I've never felt better. Scientists are finding there is no positive effects of alcohol whatsoever. Positive effects previously considered heaven proven to come from the non-alcohol parts the drink.
been 34 years now. showed up late to join my drinking buddies, realized what fools we looked like. probably saved 10s of thousands of dollars over the years. drinking should go the way of smoking.
At times, Kerr's sacrifices have not been alone, with Mackey joining in and Jill also giving up alcohol for three months before the Olympics, as she did for the Worlds - a form of solidarity to help him through.
If you say you can't do it at all, you are an alcoholic right? I'm only 17. How hard is it to give the stuff up. I don't get it. I give up coke before my big meets.
To paraphase what I read that a cardiac surgeon said, "...alcohol is poison for every cell in your body..." You may still want to have a drink, and/or still drink, there is no way that it helpsor improves your athletic performances , let alone your life in general.
I read an article years ago in JAMA that it was one said if you knew the way syphilis affected every tissue in the body you knew medicine. Went on to say that that disease was rarer today so the study of alcohol on the tissues replaced it in overall studies. Sidebar related that many middle aged men were having hip replacements. These men had had no accidents that would indicate a hip energy. As it turns out the alcohol was killing the marrow in that bone that ties the femur to the ball joint.
At times, Kerr's sacrifices have not been alone, with Mackey joining in and Jill also giving up alcohol for three months before the Olympics, as she did for the Worlds - a form of solidarity to help him through.
If you say you can't do it at all, you are an alcoholic right? I'm only 17. How hard is it to give the stuff up. I don't get it. I give up coke before my big meets.
I do it several times a year without even thinking about it.
I don’t trust people who can’t drink. Sounds like you don’t trust yourself. Jesus drank. Why do you put alcohol above caffeine or coffee or chocolate or meat or any other thing?
If you want to thump the Bible Luke 22:18 quotes Jesus as saying he would no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God is established.
I don’t trust people who can’t drink. Sounds like you don’t trust yourself. Jesus drank. Why do you put alcohol above caffeine or coffee or chocolate or meat or any other thing?
If you want to thump the Bible Luke 22:18 quotes Jesus as saying he would no longer drink of the fruit of the vine until after the Olympics.
I don’t trust people who can’t drink. Sounds like you don’t trust yourself. Jesus drank. Why do you put alcohol above caffeine or coffee or chocolate or meat or any other thing?
0.8BAC/10 for the attempt. You squandered the opportunity to use letsrun addiction.
If I really believed not drinking would make doing well in a particular race I'd have no problem doing it. But I'd see no reason why anyone else needed to do it. And if I thought not drinking would make me race better I wouldn't do it at all at least at times of the year when I was racing. As it is, I've never seen anything that convinces me that not drinking does anything to help someone race better and personally found that a lot of beer done after hard or long runs seemed to make me recover faster. So it probably would be hard for me to do because it seems pointless.
God, life actually has gotten so much f**king worse it's insane.
Am I the only person who did the opposite? Drinking alone in my apartment, and subsequently not enjoying it, made me realize I was primarily a social drinker.