I HATE cardio!

[Gaspari1255]

Off day of the gym. Figured I'd go for a run up at the school around the block with my dog. I stretch out and bit and start jogging. Less than a 1/3 mile I get shin splints so damn bad I can hardly walk. My back aches like yell and I feel jarred all to shit. Why can I not run for the life of me. I've never ever been able to run over a mile without near falling on my face. I hit the treadmill or oliptical at the gym for about 5 minutes every day and by the end of that 5 minutes I'm DONE. And this is a mild jog.
How do I overcome this?
Its not that I feel winded really. Shin splints are terrible and it just seems to cramp up my whole body after that.

That used to be the story of my life. I realized that it doesn't matter which type of shoes you wear or how tight you tie them----the issue is probably running (or doing any other types of cardio) on a FLAT surface. Every since I switched to Incline speed walking on the treadmill, all of those horrible things went away. I now look forward to doing cardio.

*On a side note, loading an abundance of Chili Peppers songs on my Ipod makes cardio a hell of a lot easier.