I used to live in Midtown (Hells Kitchen). I would just jog west from my house in the opposite direction of Times Sq and towards Hudson River Park. Plenty of industrial and residential blocks on the far West Side with little foot traffic. Plus once you get to Hudson River Park you can just jog uninterrupted.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3987313&forum_id=2#36133575)

Theory: running is painful and terrible because it bad. Eating, sleep, and sex are pleasureable because your body wants you to do them. Why is your body constantly crying out for mercy for you to stop whenever you run?

1. Running will not result in weight loss. You just do not burn nearly enough calories exercising to make headway past a terrible diet. You also stimulate your appetite which if involves eating more terrible shit, which it does, just immediately cancels it out.

"What we put in our mouths is most important. For example, to walk off the calories found in single pat of butter, you’d have to add an extra 700 yards to your stroll that evening. A quarter-mile jog for each sardine we put in our mouth—and that’s just the edible part. And those who choose to eat two chicken legs better get out on their own two legs, and run an extra three miles that day to outrun weight gain. And that’s for steamed chicken; skin removed."

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diet-or-exercise-whats-more-important-for-weight-loss/

2. Running is inherently dangerous and injuries cannot be avoided:

The data suggests up to 79 percent of all runners are injured every year,” says Stephen Messier, the director of the J. B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory at Wake Forest University. “What’s more, those figures have been consistent since the 1970s.” Messier is currently 11 months into a study for the U.S. Army and estimates that 40 percent of his 200 subjects will be hurt within a year. “It’s become a serious public health crisis.

Nothing seems able to check it: not cross-training, not stretching, not $400 custom-molded orthotics, not even softer surfaces. And those special running shoes everyone thinks he needs? In 40 years, no study has ever shown that they do anything to reduce injuries. On the contrary, the U.S. Army’s Public Health Command concluded in a report in 2010, drawing on three large-scale studies of thousands of military personnel, that using shoes tailored to individual foot shapes had “little influence on injuries.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/running-christopher-mcdougall.html

3. Running prematurely ages you. It's not your imagination: marathon runners look terrible:

Could exercise be creating harmful free radicals? Oxidizing glucose to produce energy for our bodies is messy, creating free radicals the way cars burning their fuel produce combustion by-products out the exhaust. This happens even if we’re just idling, living our day-to-day lives. What if we rev our bodies up and start exercising and really start burning fuel? Then we create more free radicals, more oxidative stress, and so, need to eat even more antioxidant-rich foods.

Why do we care about oxidative stress? Well, it’s “implicated in virtually every known human disease and there is an increasing body of evidence linking free radical production to the process of aging.” Why? Because free radicals can damage DNA, our very genetic code. Well, if free radicals damage DNA, and exercise creates free radicals, does exercise damage our DNA if we don’t have enough antioxidants in our system to douse the radicals? Yes, in fact, ultra-marathoners show evidence of DNA damage in about 10% of their cells tested during a race, which may last for up to two weeks after a marathon. But what about just short bouts of exercise? We didn’t know until recently.

After just five minutes of moderate or intense cycling we can get an uptick in DNA damage. We think it’s the oxidative stress, but “regardless of the mechanism of exercise-induced DNA damage” the fact that a very short bout of high-intensity exercise can cause an increase in damage to DNA is a cause for concern.

https://nutritionfacts.org/2014/05/13/preloading-with-watercress-before-exercise/

4. Running doesn't make up for later inactivity:

And, what’s crazy is that “the time spent sitting was independently associated with total mortality, regardless of physical activity level.” Heart disease mortality was significantly elevated—even in people who otherwise exercised regularly. So, just going to the gym after your desk job may not eliminate the risks of sitting around all day. It’s something our bodies never evolved to do.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/standing-up-for-your-health/

5. Running is solitary. Injuries and oxidative stress can be overlooked to build and maintain social relationships during competitive sports. When you run, you are usually all alone.

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So to optimize health you should be on a treadmill desk going 2-3 mph to not affect cognititon all day and avoid injuries and oxidative stress. HTH.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3987313&forum_id=2#36133574)

It's the suburbs that suck for running, with boring, treeless paths alongside 4 lanes of traffic. City running, and running around obstacles, is 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3987313&forum_id=2#36133648)

In Chicago, along the lake.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3987313&forum_id=2#36134629)

When people are jogging down 8th avenue at 8:30 am as people head to work I'm like wtf are you doing. Go on a jogging path you fucking freakshows.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3987313&forum_id=2#36134682)