28-06-2006, 10:12 PM
Natalie, I have a hiking holiday coming up in Yellowstone and having led a near sedentary life for a number of years, decided I needed to get fit for this purpose. I started running, on grass, for about 50 minutes. (run 10, quick walk 5) with my hiking boots and loaded rucksack. I have now run 6 times over the last 10 days and my shins are painful. I too, find the running utterly boring and end up counting my steps between milestones. I am close to the point of deciding to rather get the exercise swimming or in a gym. I have never been a distance runner before although my sprint times were not. bad. There must be nicer ways of building fitness and loosing fatÂ…Â…..