[raybbr]

I don’t get the same sense of having worked out from cycling that I get from running. All of a sudden though, I have some pretty bad tendinitis in my right knee so I can’t run.

[magna carta]

take spin classes-they will bust your %*&

[TChad]

As aerobic exercise, cycling is not a good substitute for running, except perhaps for competitive cyclists.

I have some pretty bad tendinitis in my right knee so I can’t run.

And right there is the problem with running: injuries. If you continue to run while injured, as I did, the injuries become chronic. For me it was bilateral tibial stress fractures, bilateral Achilles tendinitis, and bilateral posterior tibial tendinitis.

The stress fractures were the killers. I once tried to leap out of the way of an oncoming car, but when I landed, the pain from one of the stress fractures was so bad that I involuntarily froze in place. Fortunately, the car stopped before it hit me.

The article is correct about running helping to offset depression. It works until you have to stop running.