Is A Boring Race Better Than No Race?

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Ambling Andrew Mar 2015 6:44pm, 4 Mar 2015 251 posts	0 Ambling Andrew Boring? Used to get Bored when I was a teenager, many years ago. Now, hardly ever. Running never. There's alwa loads of stuff happening, some of it totally subjective. How's poor leg doing, what's that pain? Etc Other runners always interesting. For a lot of my runs/ walks there's also the added " thrill" of trying to follow a route deception or map.l LDWA events !
SteveC NordRunner Jan 2021 1:27am, 9 Jan 2021 361 posts	0 SteveC NordRunner In hindsight, yes.
Dvorak Jan 2021 4:38am, 9 Jan 2021 21,711 posts	0 Dvorak Give me a race! Even the Monklands HM! Actually, i modified one of my fakeparkun courses for the ice, making it a double out and back on an unfinished cycle path, and as i was running it I thought "this really is quite a boring route".
swittle Jan 2021 11:55am, 9 Jan 2021 71,824 posts	0 swittle Not a bad undead thread! Laps of an athletics track doesn't do it for me. Otherwise, the whole 'race business' was enough stimulation for me to enjoy my day, if not my performance.