For a while, my neighborhood was taken over by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.” Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army. I’m not alone in my opinion. First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet a real pounding（追击）ruining down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me. Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts”Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt. And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn’t just the first week: it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn’t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog? I don’t jog any more, and I don’t think I ever will. I’m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I’m getting exercise, and I’m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I’ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

一度,我家的周围出现了一大群慢跑者.他们整天呆在那里,从一大早,到中午,再到晚上.有穿着灰汗衫的身材矮小的老太太,有穿着名牌跑鞋的青年情侣,面色红润的中年男士."来吧,"我的朋友阿莱克斯鼓励我每天晚上和他一起在我家的附近慢跑."你会感觉棒极了!"是的,如果阿莱克斯每天都能慢跑,别人也都能慢跑,我一定会感觉非常棒的.因此,我很认真的开始慢跑了,整整花了我生命中的两个月,但也没多一天.根据我的经验,慢跑是所有锻炼形式中受到最大高估的锻炼形式.而且,从脱离慢跑大军的人数来看,和我持相同看法的人并不在少数.首先,慢跑对身体有很大的考验.在路上连续跑了两三英里之后,你的腿和脚都被毁坏了.我患上了脚,腿,和背病.之后,我又读到了一位著名的长跑运动员在炮兵过程中突发心脏病去世的报导.并且,我还有其他顾虑.跑步并没有使成百上千的人死亡,但如果你体质虚弱,跑步就会引发多种疾病,就像发生在我身上的疾病一样.其次,我并没有感受的跑步的乐趣.不断的重复把一只脚放在另一只脚前面的动作,在我看来,毫无乐趣可言.跑步还是一种孤独的消遣.一些慢跑着说,"我喜欢专注于一个人的思考."是的,我的想法开始使我烦恼,大多数的思考内容是与我的腿有多痛有关的.我怎么会享受到能带来疼痛的事情中的快乐呢?而且,这不仅仅是第一周:而是整整两个月中的每一天.这种痛苦的程度从未减轻,毫无乐趣.跑步是多么残酷啊!因此许多其他的锻炼,包括走步,与跑步的效果几乎相同,而没有痛苦,为什么非得跑步呢?我再也不跑步了,我想将来也不会了.我每周三次快速走两英里,这感觉很好.天气晴朗的时候,我骑车去上班.这时我正在锻炼,同时,我体验到快乐.对于跑步,我永远不会这么说.但我要说我已经找到了一种更好的保持体型的的方式.