Does anyone else do this?

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Does anybody else regularly go outside and run/jog around in a semi trance state,just letting thoughts, scenarios, or anything you may have heard that entertains you run through your mind? I do, and I've always found it the perfect companion to an introverted lifestyle. As I'm always alone with my thoughts, this active behaviour helps me to let go of any and all engagable issues in my head and relax.

I can't really go outside as it's too cold. But I love running about in my living room. It makes me feel carefree and allows me to think about my favourite music and characters. It's similar to a state of trance with me! The temptation to do it around certain sceneries and light angles (can't explain. Places can give me an indescribable vibe), is quite high. Sometimes I do it after reading or doing something on the computer that makes me feel excited (e.g. watching anime, listening to good music). It's such a pleasant feeling, but my parents don't like me doing it as I bump around.
I've hurt my foot doing it on the odd occasion. But I still love it.

I should start running again....and revel in my reverie.

I often walk around (sometimes outside) when I make my escape to cuckoo land. I have done it while jogging a few times but I mostly do it while walking.

Isn't it so healthy, we don't need to learn any de-stressing mechanisms, we just pick this up by instinct, it's like meditation and excercise all rolled into one.

Pretty much did that all of the time when I was a child. Not really now.

Didnt jog. Just walked around outdoors.

At recess I didnt interact with other kids. I just wandered around the playground interacting with my own thoughts.

Yes, I do.

I like to walk around making up my scenarios and characters.

I do while I go for a walk, though i'm not sure i'd call it a trance per-se, although sometimes my external situational awareness degrades enough where it seems rather trance-like.

I used to love going for long walks every day, and just be lost in my own thoughts. I'm not healthy enough anymore, and it's been really hard learning to stay sane without that.

I like to go on long walks and let my mind wander off into my own world where anything is possible.

I don't jog or run but I do walk & I kind of zone out while I walk.

When I walk I often do that. I also play songs, music or soundtracks in my head. It really helps when I have to wait.

Yes, though less running of late and more walking, I think it has relaxing effect on my brain.

I like to walk, mostly to exercise and to try to lose or keep from gaining weight (I'm sort of body-conscious although I'm not better than many of you (well in reality any of you) because I like burgers, fries, pizza, and cake, but thankfully I love vegetables and salad.)

I've done much walking and I started going on walks when I was 17 back in 2002, starting with in-apartment complex walking, and then extending to street-walking. And I had to because I was starting to apply for jobs.

I also like to walk through my apartment complex at night, I mean I don't recommend it but it's what I like to do, and I've been doing it after dinner, but it has to be done before 11pm for safety and thankfully I live in a gated community. I mean it's not 100% safe but it's safer than the last two places I lived. But with my health acting crazy and I still don't know what on earth is wrong with me although autoimmune diseases run in my maternal family, my mother has lots of stuff and I could be getting the same stuff she has, I don't go out walking that much anymore. I should try going on walks again but carefully, I don't like being more than 165lbs. Thankfully I don't eat three meals a day, I don't even have breakfast every morning. I don't like to run if I can help it. I can run, sometimes I don't mind it, but I don't like having to.

I don't go into a trance when I walk, nor do I think I want to, but I too play music in my head when I walk, whether to run erronds or just to exercise and keep my weight down. I also do it when I take a shower, when I shave, and brush my teeth (play music) and sometimes when I do chores, although I play real actual music when I do chores.

I too like to let my mind wander. My favorite things to think about, imagine, or fantasize are hanging out with my favorite cartoon characters, seeing/ being at railroad crossings, riding trains, my favorite cartoon characters singing real songs, (for example, I like to think of Timmy Turner (Fairly Odd Parents), Jimmy Neutron, Josh Spitz (Braceface) and Jim and Tim (Kim Possible) all in a group or band and singing songs like "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" by Jason Mraz, "Patient Eyes," by PM Dawn, "Broken Wings," by Mr. Mister, "Save our Love," by London Jones, and even some female songs like "Never Give Up on the Good Times," "Something Kind of Funny," "Mama," and "Denying" all by the Spice Girls, "I Can't Wait," by Nu Shuz" and "Never" by Heart, at least Jim and Tim. Weird imagination, I know, but it's what I like to do. I've even written and posted a few song fics and posted them on Deviant Art and I plan to write more cartoon song-fics. I also like to imagine those same five characters as my back-up singers.

I also like to combine my imaginations (such as railroad crossings and cartoon characters).

One of these days I need to try to get myself walking again, but carefully because I do get tired very easily. Only 30 years old and feel like I'm more than twice that, physically, but inside, I'm a boy in a man's body. But you know what? as one of my favorite R&B singers used to sing, "Age ain't Nothing but a Number."