Is there ANY way to make a villager who dislikes running move faster? I have had two now who don't like to move the first twisted his ankle and the second was born that way.

that really sucks

If a villager dislikes running, there's not a lot you can do. Perhaps find them a sedentary task like research, or child-rearing if they're female (ha!) where their inability to move fast isn't such a drawback, rather than farming or building?

that might work!

i had a slow male i put on parenting duty in a village i left open most of the time

the village pop climed very slowly instead of super fast...worked great for me

Nope. Even when "running" away from something else they dislike, or when they are the recipient of unwelcome advances, they will still move at a snail's pace. As had been said, they don't have to move far in research, and parenting for a slow female is another career option.

I have succeeded in getting a slow villager to an Esteemed Elderhood a couple of times, but not often. They tend to die first ...

die of natural causes????

Yes! I've haven't (yet) given up on any villager, no matter how slow or recalcitrant. All my villagers have died old old age (or bites by fire ants, or starvation, or disease, or hubris in banging the gong, or ...)

I can't say that.

When a woman reaches 50, she is put in a yellow dress. Anyone who dislikes running gets the yellow dress or a yellow shirt for the men.

i like the yellow outfit idea, but i'm not sure about the rest