Originally Posted by
KraneXL
A pair of good shoes won't bring back the cartilage but they will take a lot of the pounding out of your run. If that's not enough there's always
rubber running tracks. It's the 21st century! No excuses.
Those weren't excuses, those were damn good reasons to go to lower impact exercises. Some things just can't be fixed by "good shoes".
I have issues with my feet and ankles that might be worked around by trial and error. The problem is that the errors in the past have laid me up for so long, I have no interest whatsoever in taking the risk again.
It's the 21st century, there's a lot of alternatives to running that will keep you at least as fit. Running isn't somehow superior because it includes suffering.