Hill Street Blues
Post-event depression. It's an elephant in the room. We all know it's there but no-one really wants to be the one to talk about it. Almost everyone I know who runs longer distance events suffers from a mental drop after an event. I dunno what brings it about, something about cortisol levels after major adrenaline release, situational depressive episodes or "arrival fallacy", where the journey is more important than the outcome. Trail Runner magazine covered it a bit , but ultimately the over-riding opinion is it's just this thing that gets around. What I do know is that it sucks balls. I had it bad after Delirious earlier this year and I didn't even run! To stave off what I knew was going to come (perhaps in a self fulfilling prophecy), I took on the challenge of an ultra marathon a month from August to December. Can't come crashing down if you never come down *taps head*. Me post event News flash: it didn't help. In fact, it's probably be...