To hate "going for a walk?"

[Crazyladee]

I wish I didn't but I just find it so boring! Walking around the same streets, passing the same lamp posts and houses. We live in a fairly decent area and have two lovely dogs. DH walks the dogs twice a day and absolutely loves it but I just find walking so tedious. I wish I didn't hate it as its great to get out and get fresh air etc but I find it such a chore. Anyone else feel the same?

If I didn't have my music on, I'd feel the same way OP. I gotta have my music, gotta get in my zone. If not, it's just boring and I want to turn back and go home.

Do you guys get bored if you do other things just in your company, like go for a run or a swim or a cycle ride, bounce on the trampoline or row on a rowing machine -- by yourself. Are those equally tedious?

Fair question. In my case, no. I like my solitude and happy doing things alone, it's just the wandering around that feels a bit pointless.

Have you thought of getting s bike? You should go a bit further afield, explore a bit instead of just tramping around the same old places. Just a fairly gentle pootle e around is better than not getting out regularly at all.

I like walks with pit-stops (pint stops).

I agree wholeheartedly OP!

Used to live near a nice green walk down to the river, so could go there for even short dog walks. I liked that. Where I live now, everything close by is drab streets, some of which are very noisy, and the dog has to stay on her lead and spends about 10 minutes sniffing each lamp post. So now only the longer walks are nice. Podcasts do help, but sometimes it is too noisy to hear them.

People saying "how can you not like a walk" obviously live somewhere nice.

I’d hate walking round the streets. I even hate running on streets. Hills forests rivers and beaches are all for walking. Even in quite (sub)urban areas of the U.K. there’s usually one of them not too far away.

I really enjoy walking.I try to walk 3 miles around our village after the school run,usually takes around 45 mins.

I love walking. I find it very therapeutic. I could walk for miles and miles. It’s good for you!

Walking is boring but you like going to the gym?

Well yes anyone would find it boring to go for a walk around the same town every day! You need variety. I'm lucky enough to live in a place with loads of beautiful walks in my doorstep, and I love iit. Baffled by comments like 'one tree' looks much like another. Firstly, no it doesn't. Secondly, there's a lot more than trees out there. The landscape and views change throughout the seasons, as does the wildlife.

I love a walk, anywhere green, or wooded, a lakeside or shoreline.

But no, not round the local houses under the street lamps unless it was a one off evening trip to somewhere with a lot to see like London or oxford

Go somewhere different. I go for a walk daily. Or a run. Who cares what the weather is like? I walk on the mountains and quarries. Love the loneliness of it.

Yep I hate it. One reason I’d never get a dog.

I walk to get somewhere, walking for walkings sake - no.

I love walking. I wish I ever got time to do it.

Sounds as if you don't so much hate going for a walk as are bored rigid going for the same walk.

I love walking but would also be bored if it was the same route all the time.

You need to find a way to persuade your husband to mix it up a bit.

My people! I hate walking. Especially countryside walking. Partly boredom, partly frustration that it takes so bloody long with nothing to show for it, partly never feeling safe (so I don't want headphones in to compound that). I can just about bear a beach walk, with good company - but to actually enjoy it, it would need to be a run.

Christ I feel like a jd salinger character but so much of this sounds forced, fake. Like a really distopian episode of black mirror.

We are existentially unwell I guess.
Life is a same old same old walk around the block, same old industrial estate shopping cloned nightmare with no essence or soul.
Even if you are atheist you have to admit there is no fucking depth.
We are corporate drones with dogs to walk.

I’m happy in my own way, would you believe 😁

I am the same op, I find walking really boring no matter how beautiful my surroundings. I am quite indoorsy though.

I hate it too, and feel so guilty about it. Everyone keeps telling me to do it, how good it is for my MH. But it just seems so pointless.

Oh I love walking the dogs, because I talk to so many people. 😁 I don’t care if they’re wearing a balaclava, I’ll still find an excuse for a yarn. I think half the people around here end up suffering from Stockholm syndrome, because of me. Yakety yak. 🤣

To add to that, I love walking but not in towns.

I don't mind walking generally at all. Walking dogs round pavements I find boring. I much prefer walking them round a field when they can have a decent run and it's lovely in summer. If I was walking round roads all the time for an hour twice a day I would hate it Xx

I like walking but walking dogs is boring unless it’s in a park. But I don’t like dogs...

Happy to walk to somewhere. So it seems like there is a purpose. Hate just going for a walk.

I love walking and find it meditative. I've suffered from anxiety (v. badly - was housebound for a time) and it helps with that along with yoga. I find the gym mindnumbingly dull though, so I guess we're all different. I can't switch off at the gym and daydream though cause for me there's too much noise and distraction (but that is probably the anxiety again).