So you’ve just blown through one of your regular trail routes and you are feeling like it’s become too routine, as if you’ve just done your regular 3-mile loop in your neighborhood. As you think to yourself how mundane that loop was the thought hits you in the side of head like a wild right hook from Chuck Liddell, the trails I’m running have become just like the pavement, uninspiring and ridiculously repetitive!
One of the reasons you left the pavement for the woods was the different surroundings but somehow that does not seem to be the case. Lost is that sense of adventure, excitement or what lurks up ahead. Logic would dictate that you should change trails, routes, hills or mountains. However, what if that’s not possible, or you have already tried that, but can’t shake the monotony?
Well, you should start by considering your attitude towards your training runs and workouts, as well as how your routine generally unfolds…
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Warwick Ford is a guest contributor to The Final Sprint and author of “Fun on Foot in America’s Cities,” the book that details and maps the best on-foot routes in 14 major US cities. Check out FunOnFoot.com for more information and to purchase the book.
San Diego, famous for its beaches, zoo, Navy and Marine Corps bases, sea craft, and golf, is also a winning place for on-foot exercise for various reasons. The main one is the weather, which is recognized by many as the best in the U.S. The average daily maximum and minimum temperatures lie within our preferred range of 40-to-80 degrees every month of the year. Furthermore, on average, there is precipitation on only 42 days per year and 41% of days are brilliantly cloudless. Add to that some gorgeous seaside scenery, historic sites to make runs interesting, and a low violent crime rate, and you have arguably the nation’s most pleasant location for year-round running.
For a training or recreational route to be motivating and enjoyable it needs to have four attributes:
Applying this model to San Diego, we came up with the following three winning routes:
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Warwick Ford is a guest contributor to The Final Sprint and author of “Fun on Foot in America’s Cities,” the book that details and maps the best on-foot routes in 14 major US cities. Check out Warwick’s site for more information and to purchase the book.
There are two things that make San Francisco a place where running outdoors is irresistible. The first is the set of scenic routes resulting from the city’s location on the Pacific Ocean and the enormous natural harbor and associated waterways that constitute the Bay. The second is the weather. The monthly average maximum temperature lies between 56 and 70 degrees year-round and the monthly average minimum lies between 46 and 56. Therefore, weather is unlikely to dampen your enthusiasm for getting outdoors for a run.
For a training or recreational route to be motivating and enjoyable it needs to have four attributes:
Applying this model to San Francisco, we came up with the following three winning routes.
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Tracking your mileage is always a great idea – but it can often be tedious and time-consuming. If you don’t want to spend several hundred dollars on a device like a Garmin Forerunner and your sick and tired of measuring your routes via your car’s pedometer – well your now in luck. Thanks to the wonderful technology provided by Google maps and the Google satellites, there are now several easy to use and reliable mapping tools on the internet.
These sites allow you to use your mouse to trace your routes on a map and save them. In addition, many of them allow you to share your routes with others. This is especially handy if you are hoping to go for a quick run when you are away from home (i.e. – on a family vacation or a business trip) so that you can use other people’s saved routes for your own stress-relieving run.
Please beware that there are several sites out there that require monthly fees or service charges.
However, with the following three sites – you will get reliability – and best of all . . . they are 100% FREE!!!
These sites have become incredibly popular for runners around the country. Since trying them out I have become a huge fan and a regular user. Try them and let me know what you think. I believe you’ll find them to be just as useful and easy-to-use as I have. ENJOY!
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