any non runners?

[aicabsolut]

I get chronic shin splints too, even with all the help I can get from orthotics, physical therapists, and sports trainers. I had a (then undiagnosed) stress fracture in high school from sprinting and hurdling. My attempts to do some short distance running for fitness through college and graduate school has earned me a nice osteochondritis dissecans lesion in my right ankle. It hasn't healed in years of no to lo-impact rest, but I don't want to get the surgery for it. I cycle because my doctor told me to get on indoor bikes while I was supposedly "healing." I don't want to be stuck in a gym forever, but running is still out for me.

[Crankin]

Another non runner. I have tried to run in the past, and wish I could, but I just keep getting injured. My most successful attempt was in 2004. But, even with a lot of slow building up and walking, I keep getting groin pulls (a weak area for me) and knee issues. I lived in a flatter area in 2004, so that's maybe why it was easier on my body.
But, I am very slow (a ten or 9.5 minute mile) and really didn't see improvement. The reason I liked running was that you can go out any time and in 30 minutes feel like you've had a good work out. So now I walk at least once a week and in the fall and spring I do a lot of hiking on local trails. I also snow shoe and x country ski, do yoga. In the colder months I go to the gym, do spin, weights, etc. Really, though, cycling is my main activity.

[sundial]

I used to run--alot. Then I tore my ACL playing basketball 27 years ago and my joint is swiss cheese so I can only do non-impact stuff now. I still get the urge to head out the front door and just jog until I'm pooped. But now I've got a bike to do that.