How do you get over running the same route every day?

#HobbyJoggerProblems

Does a swimmer complain about swimming in the same pool everyday

Yeah, doesn't sound like you are that much 'into' running. Especially if you need all those distractions to prop you up. I grew up loving to shoot hoops. Same basketball and rim for years at a time. I think it's the actual act of running that is the problem. Do you have a race coming up that can fire you up a bit? Or a co-worker you could talk into joining you occasionally to break up the monotony you're experiencing? A lot of us on here would kill to be able to get a run in during our workday!

Just do it, helps to run by time if you're in this circumstance.

I've always wondered, when people who run on a lunch break, eat their lunch.

Just Sam Body wrote:

I've always wondered, when people who run on a lunch break, eat their lunch.

they typically have a desk job where they can eat while working or they just get as long of a lunch as they want. If I had to get in 8 hours of work between 8 and 6, you betcha I'd go for a run in the middle

Run a fun route on the weekend, before/after work, find something better to listen to, ride a bike, do calisthenics instead.

Lippy wrote:

Attack instead of relate..Go to hell phaggots

If you want to "relate" to people, try a hobbyjogger-oriented website like Reddit or RunnersWorld. Don't come to a forum for competitive runners to whine about your 30 minute loop.

Deal with it.

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It also helps to wear 2" split shorts, or even 1" split shorts. I will literally take a pic of my legs in split shorts if one of you guys do it with a newspaper showing today's date.

Running in boring gear is boring. Running in risque gear is fun. Running in split shorts with no underwear and the liner of the split shorts is frail and tattered, and strings of polyester/cotton are falling out? That is the true joy of running in minimalist gear.

Lippy wrote:

Attack instead of relate..Go to hell phaggots

I put on a killer playlist, boot up Strava and pound some energy chews the duration of the run to take my feeble mind off of the monotony.

Hope that helps.

Lippy wrote:

I live in a rural area and run during lunch. Its either go left or go right. Burns me the hell out tried music, books, whatever. Just mundane and groundhog day to hit the same route and terrain every day.

Driving out isn't an option I run during lunch

I prefer to run the same route every day - perfect time to turn my brain off and just cruise.

Just Sam Body wrote:

I've always wondered, when people who run on a lunch break, eat their lunch.

I'd bring a sandwich and eat it when I was done running. I actually managed to start my lunch "hour" at 11:50 and start again at 1:10 most of the time.

Lippy wrote:

I live in a rural area and run during lunch. Its either go left or go right. Burns me the hell out tried music, books, whatever. Just mundane and groundhog day to hit the same route and terrain every day.

Driving out isn't an option I run during lunch

Just concentrate on the pace to hold. Makes you feel perfect in control of your body. I used to run a 5 mile graveled road loop almost every easy distance day, mostly 2 laps and 10 miles.

Track runners run the same route no matter where in the world they go, on Olympic caliber running tracks.

Turn it into varied workouts. Measure off quarter mile marks in both directions, so you can alternate which way you turn...then depending on what you do on the weekend, you can throw in some timed efforts once or twice per week like long intervals, short intervals, tempo run, fartlek, and of course easy days in between.

A few years ago I would try to find new routes every week so I don't get bored. I too ran with music

Don't know what happened, now I run every time the same route and I don't even listen to music anymore, makes me unable to think.

Dunno, fake it till you love it

I eat while working at my desk.

Just Sam Body wrote:

I've always wondered, when people who run on a lunch break, eat their lunch.

HobbyJoggerSpotted wrote:

Don't come to a forum for competitive runners to whine about your 30 minute loop.

This is a competitive runners forum? Sure had me fooled as it doesn't seem like it.

Just Sam Body wrote:

I've always wondered, when people who run on a lunch break, eat their lunch.

...................or shower after the run.