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Run every day (2021)

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Re: Run every day (2021)

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It's... OK. But... I just stopped because trying to hit that every... single... day - rain/shine/snow, while traveling on the road, etc... it just became ... boring. Well... some days "inconvenient" was a better term.

Did you shift that "energy" elsewhere? I've found that my routines are like seasons: the time and place for a routine just passes eventually. This used to frustrated me. It's hard to build routines, and the initiation energy to resume the activity—and the effort to sustain the same routine—was higher than before. Somewhere along the line, though, I realized that while past routines were hard to resume … others that w…

This has been my experience. I'm going to the gym more, but not necessarily pushing myself to exhaustion every visit. Used to swim more, then switched to running, may shift back to swimming, or more outdoor walking.

But my work schedule is variable enough that focusing on "X @ 7am every day" is not realistic. Yes, I should reorient work around my life, instead of my life around work. Easier said than done, and... even when I've gone through periods of that philosophy (have done it), it didn't have any noticeable impact on my health (mental or physical).

Re: Run every day (2021)

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> Everyone is busy. “I don’t have time”, “It’s impossible”, I’ve heard it all - I don’t buy it. If this was the case, you wouldn’t have time to do your laundry, watch that TV show, or even read this rant. Most of those 'other' things are asynchronous or can be 'multitasked'. I can 'watch' a TV show while checking some emails, or eating a snack, or while folding laundry. Running is a full-body one-thing-at-a-time-only…

EDIT: replying to my own post...

The whole "then stopped"... I didn't mean I stopped running altogether. I stopped aiming to 'close the rings' every single day. A 400 day streak was too much effort to keep going.

Re: Run every day (2021)

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post #66

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Reflective clothing and vests with flashing lights can help. Not sure where you live but if I don’t run in the morning (sometimes I fail to wake up early enough), I have to run in the dark at night otherwise it is just too hot!

Yes, it helps, but it's not the same as visibility during daylight hours. Fewer drunk drivers as well.

Solution: move to New York or Tokyo. Never dark!
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