ning
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I used to run 5-10 miles 4 times a week but I hated it.
Got onto bicycles and now I only very occasionally jog so that my muscles know how to do it if I need to, and then it's typically a jog-walk-jog-walk session.
IMO we were built to walk, not run. Our bodies are terribly set up for any sort of running; the best runners are digitigrade - they run on their toes - and have a ton of shock absorption in their stride, and quadrupeds don't more their center of mass up and down like we do when running. To tell the truth, we're not even that good of walkers, but we manage.
That's what humans do, we manage, and it's because we're big-headed enough to think we can do it, so we end up doing it no matter how it hurts.