A place for runners.
Running is recommended when you have depression or anxiety, so it would make sense that runners have a higher percentage of depression and anxiety. Did the study control for that?
Of course, people can still be stressed and exhausted from running (or their goals and training regime). But I'm wondering how much this study actually tells us.
And if you're peeing blood, you're doing something wrong I think π³
Yeah, the question should not be βdo you have anxiety or depressionβ but how does that change before and after starting running, how does it evolve over time with respect to the hobby you are understanding, does it get better if you quit and so on. (I am no great fan of running, but ill-constructed statistics grind my gears to no end)
A potentially interesting topic, but the style in which this article is written is very irritating. It's trying to put words into the reader's mouth, and most of the "replies" are rather insulting and overtly stereotypical.
Back onto the topic itself - some runners run away from something bad in their lives, or have adopted addiction to running to replace some other addiction, usually drugs or overworking. I know a few like that personally, and they are indeed unhappy.
I'm not a fan of how the article is written, but as someone who runs marathons, I do think it offers some conversation points.
For me, training for a marathon is like preparing for a moon landing. It takes a lot of time and commitment, and it's sometimes hard to fit in. Then on race day, if you don't get the time you've been training for, you can feel quite dejected afterwards.
Why not just run with friends recreationally, and then sign up for a marathon for the social aspect and enjoy hanging out with people while running too far?
Presupposition