If you could never run again

I would concentrate on school.

Write more songs.

Play more piano.

Do more theater.

Probably take up another sport.

Life would still be great.

Tomorrow is today....

If this thread is still alive in the next few days I'll write my novel.

In the mean time: I'm recovering from my 9th knee surgery, all cartilage problems. Did I run too hard my whole life....??

if you're on your 9th knee surgery and still running, you're a ......

Well, I'd prolly be in jail.

Those crazy cops would have finally caught up me.

go crazy. i've been out for three months and if I found out that it was permanent I would probably at least consider suicide

i am permanently injured and in my 20's, it blows but you move on and find a lot more time to do other things in your life. it isn't the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.

Just take up another sport. Cycling is cool.

anyone who would consider suicide because they can't run must have a shitty life...i had a long term injury during which i accepted the fact that the competitive running aspect of my life may be over; i accepted it fine and moved on (although now i'm back racing better than ever). but at the time i didnt care that much..running is just a part of life i enjoy, but it is not critical nor is my life completely dictated by it.

done and done wrote:

i am permanently injured and in my 20's, it blows but you move on and find a lot more time to do other things in your life. it isn't the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination.

what is your injury?

race walk

for me, the thought that I would never experience running again in my EXISTANCE would be too much. I could live without competitive athletics but the thought that I would never experience my passion ever again would kill me.

I'd bike, walk and lift weights. Actually it might be more of a variety. Thanks for the idea.

I would take up another sport or simply work on all-round fitness. Then I would spend more time with friends and family, more time visiting places, travel on weekends maybe, put more into other areas of life.

In the late 1980's British newspapers reported that at an inquest on a suicide the departed left a letter giving his reason for taking his life as an injury meant he could not run again and he could not face life without it.

take a trip and find something new to do in your life.

go on a bender with some friends.

it does hit people pretty hard, not being able to run, but really, you have to look at it in perspective, its not the end of the world, but it is like a really nasty heartbreak.

surfing has always looked intriguing. I would try surfing.

......very dedicated, loyal-to-the-sport runner, which we're all "supposed to be" here on this site!!

For all of you that said they would move on, etc., why don't you MOVE ON off this site and get on a message board about something you love. Obviously running is not that important to you if you would consider moving on to something else IF you were injured.

If you truly cannot run then see what you think about moving on...........

PS - Why do you think you'd be able to bike, swim, surf, or whatever?

If you can't run that means you're INJURED. Which probably means it would hurt too much to do any of those activites.

Not being able to run means NOT BEING ABLE TO RUN!

I constantly hear comments from other dads (of our kids' soccer teams) that their knees hurt and they don't/can't run. The next thing you know they are out on the field running around kicking the ball with their kid!?! If I could run just 10 feet I could run 10 miles...........