Running 2200 times around the same 0.3 mile apartment block

There have been Japanese runners doing similar things.

try this, 3100miles round a single block in Queen's New York.

https://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/

I use to run on a 0.37 loop at a park during my lunch breaks because there was really no where else to run in the city I worked in. I would put in 15 miles at this place sometimes when I had to stay late at work, so maybe it’s the only place he can run without getting taken out by a car every week.

Got my 1000-mile PR there (18 1/2 days) in ‘96. I was last & DNF, so the other 5 sort of paced me. At the lowest point, Jeff said, “You are just going to have to FIND joy,” which was surprisingly good advice.

Could be a baby napping and he can keep tabs with the monitor.

Brah wrote:

I use to run on a 0.37 loop at a park during my lunch breaks because there was really no where else to run in the city I worked in. I would put in 15 miles at this place sometimes when I had to stay late at work, so maybe it’s the only place he can run without getting taken out by a car every week.

I had a very similar experience, using a .25 loop at a park during lunch. There was literally no where else to go at the time, running on the streets / sidewalk wasn't an option at the time.

I used to do my long runs around a half mile loop around a hospital.

i have been running 95% of my runs on a track, 80-85 miles/week

True story: each loop was something like 0.5488 miles. Cutoffs were min. 50 miles/day, 385 miles/week. At the end of 3 weeks, I was struggling, but on pace. Come to find out, I had to do one LESS lap than I had calculated. I like numbers, had 3 weeks to do the math, and thought: “Man, I must be tired to mess that up!”

I'm doing that sort of thing more and more. I've got arthritis in a couple places. If a knee gives out or some such thing and I take a nasty fall I don't want to be miles from my car or house. I actually kind of like it. There's no trying to figure out where to run. Traffic is not a problem. Boredom from repetitiveness is less an issue than you'd think. I've lived in the same house since 1991 and in two other places near by since 1984. EVERY run I can do here is repetitive by now. I have a fairly high boredom threshold anyway.

Which leads me to something Benji Durden said in a Gary Cohen interview. He said he used to do most of his runs on a loop that took him three minutes to run. He said he'd gone as long as three hours on that loop. I asked him if he does anything similar these days and he said now he's doing most of his runs on similar loop that takes six minutes. (Wonder which loop is longer.) He also mentioned a high boredom threshold. Ed Winrow did all of his 2-3 hour runs on a loop in a graveyard. He liked the absence of traffic and yahoos who yell insults at you as you run and adding that the residents there were extremely quiet.

And if you do a search here for "Lionel Ortega," 2:14 guy from the 70s, you'll see a thread that mentions him doing all his runs on the track at the U of New Mexico, up to 180 miles a week. The thread does not say why he did that. Maybe the guy here who mentions doing most of his 8085 mile weeks on the track could say why he does it.