What do you think about when you Run?

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  • beardedwarriortx
    beardedwarriortx Posts: 238 Member
    Filthy Naughty Stuff
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    Every once in awhile I zone completely out, but usually my mind is all over the place.

    It's like therapy for me most days. I wish I could just dump my thoughts right out onto a blog because they seem to fall apart as soon as I'm done running.
  • Forty6and2
    Forty6and2 Posts: 2,492 Member
    I think about breathing because I suck at breathing while running but I also like to live.
  • Fiercely_Me
    Fiercely_Me Posts: 481 Member
    I love running to miami/atlanta booty bass music from the 90s. Makes me think I'm in a throwback music video!

    If I'm not running with music, I just like to be in the moment, embrace the struggle, and know that with each stride I'm getting stronger.
  • splashtree2
    splashtree2 Posts: 277
    I listen to music....it helps me not to think about fatigue or when i really feel in shape how much is beautiful to be admired while running.
  • msbhavesalot
    msbhavesalot Posts: 15
    First 2.5 km is always "This sucks" - before I'm warmed up properly, then my mind just drifts off. I use Runkeeper and follow some R4FL program, because otherwise I get bored as I don't challenge myself enough during running - meaning I don't get that much result in speed and such (which has improved so much the last couple of weeks tho) - so basically after those 2.5 km I always think "When's the next interval?". And the usual - "Am I still breathing? How far have I run? Go faster, legs, I know you can do it! What are you staring at? Don't you look at my *kitten*, old man!" and so on... Love running tho. It's my main way to exercise.
  • redpandora56
    redpandora56 Posts: 289 Member
    Nice sunrise today. I like how the clouds are letting just the right amount of sunlight in.
    *starts running*
    I think this left shoe is tied a bit too tight.
    There's definitely some small rocks in there though. I can feel them occasionally.

    What's my pulse now? Ah 160 at this pace? Well, that's okay factoring the humidity, the temperature, the fact that I'm 10 lbs. overweight, and I'm running into a wind which is added resistance, but then it is cooling me off which could lower my heart rate. Sure, that sounds perfect. I guess I'm okay but who even knows.

    Oh, here comes another runner. Some girl. I didn't shave yesterday and I barely combed my hair after getting up. She sees me. No doubt, she probably thinks I'm going to rape her. I have to assume that's what all women think after reading the stories on MFP. I hope she doesn't have mace. Not that I would do that but she probably watches too much Law and Order SVU and assumes any male wants her body. Yeah, I'm totally running straight at her but I don't want to run in the grass. I'll glance down at my watch so she knows I'm more interested in running than her.

    *Nods while passing*
    Phew! Made it past her without getting maced. Now she can worry about someone else and I can stop questioning how long mace lasts. But wait. What if she really does disappear after this? Say she falls off in the river or she gets nabbed by some other person. They'll blame it all on me. I just know they will. Someone will say "I saw that guy out there before she disappeared" and even though I don't know a thing about it they'll bring me in for questioning. Who will feed my dog?

    I know. I'll have to submit my GPS data to court to prove that I couldn't have killed her while maintaining this pace. Yeah, that's what I'll do. "Your honor, I couldn't have possibly have killed her while maintaining this pace and as you can see my heart rate didn't even change when she passed by so I wasn't anticipating a kill."

    Will they accept that as proof? No doubt they will. I read about a biker using that to prove he was stopped when a car hit him. See, this Garmin was totally worth the money. What's $300 if it proves you're innocent? A lawyer would charge this much per hour. Great investment for sure.

    There's definitely some small rocks in the left shoe.

    *glances at watch*

    Ah, I've gone a half mile already?

    :laugh: favourite one so far.
  • jtm4210
    jtm4210 Posts: 108 Member
    I like to plan how I'm going to spend my hypothetical lottery win, particularly if I'm running through the nice part of town where all the big houses are. The amount I'm planning to win varies - today it was a fairly modest £2 million which still got me a decent house with enough land for a couple of horses, and a ski lodge in the Alps.

    I get distracted for longer when I only win around £200k as it's harder to decide whether, once the hypothetical mortgage is sorted out, I really need to splash out on a nice-but-not-too-flash car, or if it's worth saving for private school fees for my hypothetical kids, or if I should use the money to take a break from work and go back to uni etc etc etc

    I also wonder when I'm going to find my first body - since murder victims on TV always seem to get discovered by early-morning runners...
  • runforestrun35
    runforestrun35 Posts: 480 Member
    I think about life, what I need to do that day, how I can get rich so I can skip going to work and take a vacation, or I will clear my head ( and forget about a bad day) and listen to music....
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    Depends on the session.

    Sometimes I'll just zone out, sometimes work through issues going on at work, projects, negotiations.

    For more intense sessions there's more of a focus on form.
  • DAM5412
    DAM5412 Posts: 660 Member
    Finishing. I am a new runner, so I am still working on hitting "my stride" and have never zoned out. I spend most of the run telling myself it's not that bad, that I can just go a little further, that the sun isn't that bad, there's shade ahead, that if I just go a few more minutes I'll feel better and it will get easier. It never does.....but seriously, all I think of is the run being over!!
  • ValerieFort
    ValerieFort Posts: 13
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/thoughts-every-jogger-has-while-out-for-a-running
  • yogicarl
    yogicarl Posts: 1,260 Member
    When I'm cycling I'm looking out for every other idiot out to walk in front of me or drive over me, best line on the road, potholes, blind bends etc, so it is a relief to go for a run where I can put on an MP3 player, fill my head with music and switch off my brain for a bit - off road that is and not running out in front of cyclists!

    I also swim in the sea, in lakes and rivers and even there I seem to think about whether the water is cold or just comfortable, aware of swimming through areas of different temperatures, fish swimming under me, the terrain of the sea bed or the yawning darkness of the lake - so much stimulus coming in that I don't have time to start thinking of other things.

    I think I prefer the swimming, then running, then cycling in that order for the ability to just switch off and listen in on myself for a change.

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