“Taking time off, It kind of feels like you are a lost dog, you don’t know what to do with yourself although my time was all taken, I worked 55 Hours/week so I didn’t really have much time but I still felt like a lost dog because I wasn’t doing what I felt like I was supposed to be doing which was paddling. I don’t really talk about this much but I’m open about it now because I’m out of it. Looking back at it now it’s just like a huge blur. Coping with it was really tough but the way I coped with it was knowing that if I kept grinding it and pushing through the stress I would’ve just been going backwards so I knew deep down I actually needed that break, I didn’t know how long it was going to be, it was more of just a matter of time, like a feeling where I needed to come back.
Everyone’s going to cope with it differently, lets just say I got injured and I can’t do it then it would be much harder to cope with it because it’s something I can’t control whereas where I was I can control it, I was in control of how I felt and what I needed to do so that helped a lot.” – Jeremy Stott, Team Canada Canoer. (4/4)
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