Sounds like cognitive dissonance to me. You're just bitter because "your" girl left you for some other chump. Now that your illusion of her has crumbled apart, you've started accusing her of having personal issues while taking it out on the one hobby that the soon-to-be-married couple happens to enjoy: running. And actually, I will have to agree with you. Many runners claim to experience highs that are even more pleasurable than sex. So, in a way, you kind of lost out to the "better" man. I mean, I'm not trying to be a dick but "U mad, bro?" Which, I guess, makes me a dick. Anyway, I hope you feel better, bud. Forget about other people's expectations and always find ways to improve yourself. Otherwise, a guy like yourself will end up dead if he stagnates. In other words, the only way you might survive is to do some moving around, which may or may not include running. Take it from a guy who is under the delusion/belief that he has Asperger's.
it is a fact that runners have minuscule genitalia, if i jog more than 50 feet my junk is killing me from smashing around into my knees. women runners are great to have sex with though, after extensive foreplay to loosen the vaginal walls of course
I'm running so that when I go to Afghanistan this summer, my physical fitness is among the least of my worries/things holding me back from coming home alive.
You're young. Wait 5-10 years when the metabolism starts to slow down, and you are too busy to spend 3 hours/day working out. I never ran either, until I hit my 30s.
I ran 3 marathons... and would love to run more eventually. It is a huge time commitment though. Fastest time for marathon was 3:45. I used to write a blog when I was running... but I haven't ran much at all in the past year because of some health issues. I started the blog when I could hardly run a mile. http://marathontoathens.blogspot.com/
Did you slowly transition to them (as I've heard some people recommend, running maybe just a mile at first) or just throw them on and go out and run 5 miles?
A lot of people recommend starting even lighter. More like a quarter mile at first and building up from there. But it depends on your running style to begin with. If you already run on the forefoot, then you won't see as drastic differences as somebody that has a strong heel strike.
I used to run 5-8 miles per day, with some various days I'd increase just to push myself. It got to the point where running anything in my usual range was easy. I actually miss running. Stopped when I became so busy because I was working a time-demanding job, started a family, etc. Had such little free time that I spent what few moments I had just chilling. Now that I've dropped weight, I want to get back into running, but it was more fun before when it was so easy and I could run the 5-8 miles without hardly breaking a sweat (now, I feel like I look like I'm going to die while running). Hood to Coast was a fun event - ran it one year. After I found out where the proceeds of the event really go, I became jaded and haven't run it since.
Sorry, didn't see this, yeah, started off slowly, as bb30 said below. I'd go quarter mile or so, around the block, then stop at my house and switch shoes and continue my run. Then after like 3 runs of that, went 2 blocks, mile, etc.
