Yep, I heard it again. Yesterday my wife came home from work and had a message from a co-worker that had heard she's married to a runner. "I ran track in high school and hurt my leg. Tell your husband he should stop running." Mila dutifully came home and told me, smiling the whole time because she knew how much I would follow that advice. It's far from the first time I have heard something along those lines. "Doesn't that destroy your knees?" "How long until your legs go out?" "When you get older, you'll be lucky to walk." are some others. Can't forget "I got plantar fasciitis, you will too, so you should just quit." I mean, she wasn't wrong. I DID get plantar. But, I just figured out ways to treat it. Maybe I'm not the right guy to dive into this. Prior to focusing on running, I trained various martial arts for 15 years. The risk of injury or pain was the norm. It is all about what kind of risk...