[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Thank you Ammi. Yeah I didn't want to mention it, but in retrospect I think the walks may have been an ever so slightly unhealthy way of coping with the loss I'd then recently suffered. 25k is just a tad excessive, looking back. Still, as far as coping mechanisms go, it's preferable to the drink and drugs.

…I’m not sure if it’s unhealthy, it’s just how we all cope with grief in different ways…I was similar when my dad died in that I became gym obsessed and would try to go three times a day and would begin to panic if I wasn’t able to go…releasing endorphins is also linked to to releasing emotions, isn’t it…?…and it’s also a time when we feel a huge loss of life control, which pushing our bodies physical can help to put back into place, you know…and you experienced a great sense of calm from your walking …you may not be able to explore that right now with work commitments but it’s something you’re still holding and might enjoy again at some point when it feels right and you’re able to…

[Ray.]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…I’m not sure if it’s unhealthy, it’s just how we all cope with grief in different ways…I was similar when my dad died in that I became gym obsessed and would try to go three times a day and would begin to panic if I wasn’t able to go…releasing endorphins is also linked to to releasing emotions, isn’t it…?…and it’s also a time when we feel a huge loss of life control, which pushing our bodies physical can help to put back into place, you know…and you experienced a great sense of calm from your walking …you may not be able to explore that right now with work commitments but it’s something you’re still holding and might enjoy again at some point when it feels right and you’re able to…

Exactly. You get it completely. And I too often felt a sense of panic and unease whenever life intervened and I couldn't go for a walk. In a roundabout way I guess I was succumbing to peer pressure and going along with a few friends' opinion that it was perhaps just a teensy bit unhealthy to go out for as as long as I did and as often. And of course, this was January-February, so it was freezing cold. But as you describe, it felt precisely the opposite of unhealthy in the moment. And for many of the same reasons you stated.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Ray.

Exactly. You get it completely. And I too often felt a sense of panic and unease whenever life intervened and I couldn't go for a walk. In a roundabout way I guess I was succumbing to peer pressure and going along with a few friends' opinion that it was perhaps just a teensy bit unhealthy to go out for as as long as I did and as often. And of course, this was January-February, so it was freezing cold. But as you describe, it felt precisely the opposite of unhealthy in the moment. And for many of the same reasons you stated.

….and that’s what friends do as well, isn’t it…they worry for us because it’s a solitary road that we go through and it’s their time for feeling helpless also, their concerns are just how they’re coping also……