(03-21-2019, 02:09 PM)KratosBaggie Wrote: I've been swimming for roughly 1 year now. And I'm at a stage where I can easily swim for over an hour. However I do find it tedious, and difficult to push my self to swim longer due to boredom, when I easily could go further. Even with an underwater MP3 player.
I understand this is a running thread and apologies if it's inappropriate, but I'm wondering if any of you running guys have any tips on how to overcome the tedious nature of repetition when exercising over long periods of time? Is it a common struggle or is it just me?
I do sums in my head about how long it'll take at the speed I'm going, how I can then break that time down into time intervals to keep checking I can reach my goal. If I start to struggle, I just start counting in my head (useful on hills) or start thinking about things I need to do at home or places I need to go. I don't think about what I'm actually doing. It does help though if you're running outdoors in a place that you don't go often as you can take in surroundings and that covers a bit of time.
I've also done the looking out in front of me and trying to find a particular person as my pacer or someone to try and catch (as long as it's not Farah). I realise yiou can't do this with swimming though.