What else to do other than running

Have you tried ultras? If you have the money, try triathlons/cycling.

Take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care

Thank you for the suggestions. I have no interest in ultras. I might run 20 mpw to stay in shape along with weight lifting but thats it. By lawn care do you just mean making sure my lawn and garden stays beautiful? I'd love that, but can't imagine it taking 2-3 hours a day like running used to.

in no particular order

Mad libs

Love letters…Must follow established literary conventions of taste and style

Waltz dancing

Opera singing

Orchestral performance

Romantic dinners

Squirrel catapulting...

Hog trapping

Cheyenne frontier days

take up a musical instrument. you can easily waste 2 - 3 hours per day scratching a guitar.

cheers.

Get laid

There is no substitute for running obsession. Maybe a close alternative would be something to do with science or biology and if you can make it physically active and outdoors then it gets closer.

Ballroom Dancing.

Im good now wrote:

I accompmished all of my running goals and feel fine no longer running. What is something else that I can obsess over and be addicted to?

What were your running goals that you had accomplished?

Figure skating would take a lot of practice and agility. Also, foreign languages.

Viceland wrote:

There is no substitute for running obsession. Maybe a close alternative would be something to do with science or biology and if you can make it physically active and outdoors then it gets closer.

What makes running so special?

gardengnome wrote:

Viceland wrote:

There is no substitute for running obsession. Maybe a close alternative would be something to do with science or biology and if you can make it physically active and outdoors then it gets closer.

What makes running so special?

When the sun comes up, the antelope and the lion both know they have to run to survive.

Goldfish keeping

track chick wrote:

Goldfish keeping

I like you

NJ Scofflaw wrote:

Take up what a friend of ours calls the hearty challenges of lawn care

That is serious business in the south. My neighbor has a $400 water bill due to using his sprinkler system.

It’s funny how dandelions are pretty when you’re a kid and the enemy when you’re an adult.

Alan

Golf

Im good now wrote:

I accompmished all of my running goals and feel fine no longer running. What is something else that I can obsess over and be addicted to?

Try heroin.

Canada Girl wrote:

Golf

Things to look forward to in retirement:

here at The Villages in Flaw-duh: theres golf (after which we discuss our physical ailments in the clubhouse), pickle ball, shopping, canasta and mah-jong for the women folk, day drinking, and at night: wife swapping.

I find that lawn care would be incompatible with not running. I’d be institutionalized for aggressive episodes in the course of the former lacking the outset of the latter. So I hire out my lawn care and continue running past my prime. If I have to quit running, I’ll keep my landscaper and devote myself to goldfish keeping as suggested by track chick above.