Anyone else hate running?

chris_in_cal wrote: »

kellie7850 wrote: »

Yep me. Have a real mental block over running. It’s like my body is screaming what are you doing lol.

I appreciate this. Sure people can't run from painful biomechanical problems. But I get judgey and just think..people are afraid of the effort, afraid of appearing in public exercising, ashamed, blah, blah...and they can just use the excuse "bad knees"
(research shows old people who run tend to have healthier knees than old people who don't run)

But that is just me being a curmudgeon. You saying it is a "mental block" is beautiful, and I totally get that. I believe your good insight will get you far.

And see here inlies the problem, you don't actually know whether or not the people you're thinking about have bad knees. For most of my life I couldn't run, between back issues and knee issues. Both were resolved with surgeries and physical therapy, but you wouldn't know that if I hadn't told you. While both of my issues were congenital, there are also plenty of people who have "bad knees" from previous injuries or whose knees have been "trashed" from various sports in their youth leaving them unable to run.

While for some people it might be a mental block, for others it really isn't. I mean then there are also people who don't like running but are more than willing to push through lactic acid coursing through their body while say, rowing, cross country skiing, or cycling. They don't seem to be "afraid of appearing in public exercising, ashamed, blah, blah".

But then again, I'm just tired people thinking that running is the end all be all and having had to spend over half my life explaining that no, I can't run.