Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: question for Chinagrl or others who run at the gym...

I agree with chinagrl....start slow and work up to it, you don't want it to be something you dread. I haven't run on a treadmill since the weather got warmer, but when I first started I did and I'd walk, run, walk, run, over time decreasing the time I walked. Initially I had a distance goal of three miles. My knees aren't stellar, so my goal is exercise, not distance now. I don't expect to ever run more than 5 miles at a time.

However--I've got a race coming up in October with my husband, 10 miles, and at all times one of us is running, and one is biking, so we switch off. So I started biking more this summer, and last week started practicing the switchoff between biking and running. I think adding biking has really helped overall with endurance AND toning/fitness. So I definitely agree that you should switch it up. It keeps things more interesting and is better for your body. A lot of "real" runners (which I am not) always say crosstraining is key.

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