Commuting when stressed

[LOGAN 5]

I got stressed out tonight when my train sat outside Clapham Junction for 20 mins (broken rail or some whatever holds trains up these days) and by the time it got to East Croydon I could have cycled there quicker. The train was inevitably VERY late when it finally got me home.

I was all geared up to go running (done my cycle commute during the AM rush) but got so P"""d off with the delay then fell asleep on the train I was on it so long. I was completely switched off by the time I got home so didn't go for my run which made it all worse.

Couldn't "unwind" after that.

Day off tomorrow so please let it not rain so I can go out for a ride.

Moral of the story is do some exercise to "de-stress".

 

[Deleted member 1258]

As a labourer stress is not a problem, but long hours can be. This sort of thing happens occasionally, a few weeks ago I started at my normal 7am and got finished at 9:30pm, spent a lot of that time driving a van, its not normally that extreme, just the odd hour or two over. What I find is when I'm tired my timing seams to goes of, I can't just flow through traffic as normal, nothing seems to work as it should.

 

[swee'pea99]

I have to say I've never felt unsafe as a result of tiredness or stress, and my own experience is that cycling reduces my stress and makes me feel less shagged out - but having sais that, I have to admit that by the sounds of things, I don't get as stressed or as tired as some posters whose experience seems to differ. So I don't know. For me, it seems to relieve rather than execerbate..but maybe there's a finite limit above which it is dangerous/stress-increasing.

Sorry, that's not very helpful. I guess the bottom line is that each of us has to try to get a feel for where their personal limits lie, and what's best for them when they reach them.

 

[XmisterIS]

I quit my job in the IT industry and went back to university because I figured that my health and well-being were worth far more than a highly paid and highly stressy job in a cut-throat industry!

I'm re-training for a career in a much more rewarding and less stressful line of work, but one which could eventually see me paid more than I was getting in IT!