Running as cross-training?

[velo]

Just wanted to say thank you for the advice in this thread. We are back and I was able to regularly run for fitness while gone, with a whole LOT of walking, too. The Couch to 5 K was a great resource. I'll never be a runner, though. Ha ha! But it was helpful for a situation where I had no access to any other workout. My heels are really, really sore from the walking and running. I wonder if my shoes were not quite right. I'm adding a picture of the view I had to endure whilst (truly) enduring the running (this would be the southern coast of Istanbul - on the Marmara sea, right after the Dardanelles from the Mediterranean as the sea opens up before the Bosphorus strait to the Black Sea). Thanks again, all. Back to the trainer.