What would you do if you couldn't run

Not Peter Pan wrote:

What about Elliptigo? Too douchey?

Nope. Haven't been able to run for a few years. Have put over 26,000 miles on my ElliptiGO in under 5 years. It is the closest I can come to running.

hobby jogging.

Alright okay...so we've got the whole "find new activities" down pat. But dig deeper...remember, in this hypothetical situation, your life has greatly centered around running. I mean sure, you've got a real job and what have you, but maybe that's even related to running (maybe you work in the running industry), the overwhelming majority of your friends are runners who you likely met through running. And now you. Can't. Run. How do you just hit the reset button on life?

Asking for a friend.

People lose limbs, are paralyzed, etc. every day. How do they cope? What’s the alternative? You either choose to accept the reality of your new life or you can choose to be miserable and unhappy. Life isn’t fair and nothing is guaranteed. Plenty of books on it if that’s what your friend needs, buy him one.

Oh for crying out loud, worse things in life happen. Grow a pair and move on.

As a friend, you need to give up running, too. That's what friends are for. [b]DO IT[/b]!

If you mean when I was younger? My body is too beat up now to run more than five or ten mile a week. If I had not excelled in 600yds. in PE in elementary school and junior high school, I would have continued playing baseball and Am. football. President Physical Fitness Test? I believe started under JFK? If I recall, 400 yards, 1st. through 4th grade, 600 yards, 5th through 9th grade. I love the 600 yard dash!

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Since no one has suggested this, I will. Get involved in running in another capacity. Aside from working in the running industry, you can volunteer at a track meet or a road race. You can become a certified official. You can become a coach.

Not Peter Pan wrote:

How do you just hit the reset button on life?

You do other things. You let go of the past and move on.

I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school

Or steal my daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool

Or find myself a rock and roll band that needs a helpin' hand

Oh Maggie I wish I'd never ran no race.

You made a first-class fool out of me

But now i'm as lame as a fool can be

You broke my legs but I love you anyway

I would live my other, arguably better dream of building a Viking ship, hiring a crew, and raiding up and down the coast in search of fame, gold and wenches.

Be nice . Have a slice of Pi.

Well, having been in your hypothetical situation numerous times, I think I can relatively say what i would do and have done.

Each time an injury that would come and curtail my running, of course, the first thing I have done i to try to run through it. DUH! It did not work and only made matters worse.

The second thing I did was go to the doctor's, (this would be 35 -40 years ago) and get some inflammation pill or pain pill...hmm, that too did not work and only made matters worse. As pain would subside running would continue and it would make matters worse.

I did try to swim with a sore foot. I found that I couldn't push off the wall to make a turn also flexing my foot while swimming was painful.

Now bike riding, if you have a pained foot or calf or hip forget about pedaling.

Hmm, well, now having been around this block numerous times, I have learned that not only is less is more...it's truly real, less is more.

What I do now is preventive. lol! it doesn't not stop the injuires, as I have become a netlix chick and a bookworm. I hurt my shoulder from poor couchienesss posture and hurt index clicker finger.

LOl.

i am through fighting with pain and i give up and take two aspirins and call it a day.

Not Peter Pan wrote:

Alright okay...so we've got the whole "find new activities" down pat. But dig deeper...remember, in this hypothetical situation, your life has greatly centered around running. I mean sure, you've got a real job and what have you, but maybe that's even related to running (maybe you work in the running industry), the overwhelming majority of your friends are runners who you likely met through running. And now you. Can't. Run. How do you just hit the reset button on life?

Asking for a friend.

Not sure what you're looking for.

You either:

1) Wallow in self pity and unhappiness for the rest of your life

2) Find meaning in other activities.

3) Just die.

If your friends are only your friends because you like to run together, then are they really your friends? I'm still really good friends with people I've met through running though I don't run a single step anymore.

Good luck.

Not Peter Pan wrote:

Your life has in fact more or less been directed by running in some form or fashion.

That's bad. Time to redeem yourself and rethink about your role in the bigger picture.

Devote more time to your family and non running friends, live outside of rigid training schedules and enjoy life and healthy activities.

Not Peter Pan wrote:

Here's the hypothetical scenario: running has been a huge part of your life for more years than it hasn't. You love doing it. It's not drudgery. You love just running as much if not more then competing. Your social circle is mostly all runners. As such, People pretty much only seem to want to talk to you about running. Your life has in fact more or less been directed by running in some form or fashion. You get an injury that curtails it and told its in your best interest to stop but that seems unimaginable to you. You can be active in other ways but it is not the same.

How do you cope? Serious answers.

Discus.

keep living my life...not running generally makes life better...but i miss the competition.

that's why i run, the competition.

doing it every day is generally a drag, but it's better than losing to scrubs

swimming