Anybody else sick of going for walks?

[WalrusWife]

There’s only so much walking around a housing estate you can do. There’s muddy fields behind me and a walk around an old fort. And it’s raining. We do have a treadmill but that’s even less inspiring.

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@DumplingsAndStew

What do you normally do for exercise over the winter?

My children would do their usual activities and we'd go swimming or go somewhere further afield for a walk. I'd go swimming and do exercise classes at the gym.

@MrDinklesOhSnap

I’m sick to death of the mud. Mud mud mud everywhere and anywhere we go, all the paths are completely decimated from overuse and it’s just like a mud soup. It’s inescapable. My pushchair is filthy, God knows what people must think of us when they see it but there is literally no point cleaning it.

Usually I love walking but our options are so limited. It also appears that nobody is bothering to pick up their bloody dogshit anymore. Hate it.

Yes to the dog mess everywhere! There is a marked increase in the amount of the stuff all over the place. Why??!

I am not fed up of walks, I love walking, but I am sick of my irritating f*ing family failing to clean their muddy boots - and the floor they leave them on - when we get back in in the expectation that I will do it.

Would normally do seaside walks.
Use the gym and pool at work.

Sick of everything tbh.
Haven't even been on a walk

I’m getting very bored of the walks I can do from my front door. Because of the way the town is cut into quarters by the railway there’s only so many ways I can walk. More exciting walks are too far for DS.

I really miss driving somewhere for a wander. Prev Covid DH and I would drive to the seaside and walk along the front or find a new country trail to explore.

@NerrSnerr

Name change fail?

Anyway

My children would do their usual activities and we'd go swimming or go somewhere further afield for a walk. I'd go swimming and do exercise classes at the gym.

Swimming is difficult. Have you considered outdoor swimming? I know a few people who have started that since this all kicked off and are really enjoying it - definitely not for me.
Are your exercise classes something you could stream on YouTube, or subscribe to someone doing virtual classes to join at home?

@DumplingsAndStew I'm not the OP- I thought the question was for all of us who are fed up of walks.

The guidelines say go out once a day for daily exercise and I'm trying to stick to that so my outside daily exercise is being out with the children at the moment.

I used to be able to do 10,000 steps a day. Walking to the station, getting on the train, walking to the office, going out to get lunch etc.

Today my step count on my phone is 481.

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Especially when it involves dolls prams, scooters or bikes.
Last year in lockdown dd would bring a massive walking mental looking doll with her that would sing (you are my sunshine) it met with an accident when dh dropped it down the stairs😂😂

Yep. Live in dublin and we seem to have the same problem here with mud! Just so many people walking the same routes. I live near a few lovely parks and the mountains but getting sick of them. We have to stay within 5km of our home and the coast is 7km so just that but too far I'm dreaming of my much loved coastal trails. We are actually moving house next month and I'm more excited about a new 5km to explore than the new house

I've not yet exhausted all options and keep finding new things on my daily walks. I must be lucky then.

I'm not sick of them because I've barely been for any. I just can't be dealing with the cold. I never seem to get the layers right, I'm either sweating or freezing.

Back in May I was in lockdown, going for walks in the local park and getting to the top of the hill to admire the view every day before going back home and sitting down to work, and thinking "well this is a bit shit but it could be a lot worse, at least it's not winter".

And now....

I'm bored of walking or running on the same route to avoid people, rather than the more interesting places (or even getting in the car to go somewhere, the luxury!), and right now, the mud is getting right on my wick. I'm no delicate flower, but so many people walking is leaving areas really deep in wet mud, and the river will flood again this week so you won't be able to go that way and it will be appalling going for weeks.

@Ariela

Can't walk here, far too many walkers no hope of social distancing when there's 6 chatting outside your Plus cyclists. Thought I had it cracked earlier - it rained so we went for a walk. Nobody about.

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Yes the difference between this and the first lockdown we had better weather . Even if I didn’t go for my walk I could sit in the garden , peg my washing out , gardening . I quite enjoyed feeding the birds too . None of that it’s just gloomy .
I’m flexible furlough so still working some days at home but yeah I’m bored of it all now .
I’m trying to give myself jobs to do then over the week to do them .
I do enjoy walks but not if the weather is bad which recently it has been most days .

I listen to podcasts if walking on my own. Just listened the news quiz and was laughing so much I didn't notice my walk really. But yes, the monotony is dull.

We live near a fairly unvisited part of the coast and have lots of woods and rivers we can walk along too. But it still feels far less enjoyable when it is essentially the only option available.

I too am sick of the mud and am therefore sticking to paths but I am loving walking. I’m not really doing it because of lockdown, I am still working full time shifts as is my DP and we are homeschooling so we have a lot on but getting out every day is doing me the world of good. I’m aiming for 8-10k a day and achieving it most days!

Christ yes. And I’m so sick of the mud. I’m constantly mucky from muddy kids, and the hall is always full of dried mud. I’m constantly hoovering.

Yes. Bored as fuck

I wouldnt care if I didn't go on another walk in my life. DS is 21 months, I'm craving a large latte in a baby group with other women. My life is work, walk, sleep beyond depressing

@Thisseatisnotavailable

I had to take my daughter to the Orthodontist today, it was quite exciting going somewhere different for a change. We even got to go on the tube

Did similar last week! Felt like a proper outing !

Yep. Housing estate walk as the lovely hills are muddy boggy as fuck.

@Summerdayshaze

No. I’m recently paralysed and would give anything to walk.

So sorry to hear that @Summerdayshaze, obviously nothing I can say is able to make it better but that really sucks

I will think of you the next time I feel grumpy about walking and remember how lucky I am that I can. I had chronic fatigue a couple of years ago so I know something of being immobile (on a much lesser scale ofc).