I gave up triathlon for a year and this is what happened....
I always seem to click on those articles... I did plank every day for 2 weeks and this is what happened. I drank a gallon of water every day for a month and this is what happened. I had sex every day for a day and this is what happened. Blatant but effective click bait titling. Most of those articles are because the author made a definitive choice to do something, or not do something for a specific amount of time. This is not one of those articles. I didn't intentionally give up triathlon. Up until July 17, 2017 I was training for IM Racine 70.3. Kindof. Sortof. I was training in the sense that I woke up every morning knowing what I was supposed to do that day to be ready for the race...then went to bed each not having not done anything. My job interfered; my family needed me to neglect them from up close, not afar; and my heart just wasn't in it. I just couldn't muster up the energy to get on a bike for 3 hours, or to get my long runs in. I ju