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Readers Respond: How Do You Prevent Boredom When Running?
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Updated July 09, 2009

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Even the most enthusiastic runners experience runs when they feel, well, bored. To stay motivated to run, it's important that you try to prevent feeling bored when running - whether it's outside or on a treadmill. What do you do to prevent boredom while running? Play games in your head? Sing songs? Plan out your next meal? Share Your Tips

Sing to yourself.

I tend to get bored when I run in meets. There's nobody to talk to and you're not allowed to have iPods. So to solve this, I listen to a lot of songs before the meet and get them stuck in my head for when I run. Then I just sing my way through the race.
—Guest Danielle

listen to music

I listen to music for most of my runs. I have running playlists on my iPod and they really keep me pumped when I'm running.
—Guest david

run with a friend

I always try to run my long runs with my running buddy. We usually run saturday mornings together, so we talk about how our week went, what we watched on tv, how we hate our bosses -- anything to make the time go faster. It really helps!
—Guest allison

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