Originally Posted by littledog
For some people cycling and running are surely an obsessive/compulsive or addictive behavior. Look at how most hospitals now run clinics for sports injuries. If you exercise to the point where you injuring your body and yet you still do it then is it any better healthwise than over eating or drinking too much ?
I'm most definately obsessive/compulsive about my cycling addiction. I've logged 12,000 miles a year for 8 of the last 10 years, only missing that goal when I was out for serious injuries relating to impacts with solid objects (one fast moving, one not). I've trained my body to handle it and, at 51, I've just wrapped up the finest cycling season I've ever had with numerous PRs and race wins.
Personally, I don't think the clinics are full of obsessive/compulsives as much as they're full of people who, after years of being couch potatos or workaholics or whatever, decide all at once that they want to be an athlete again and then dive in the deep end before they're ready.