"I've been walking the same short loop over my lunch hour for seven years. I enter Central Park from Sixth Avenue, drift up and around Sheep Meadow, trawl down West Drive, exit at Seventh and march back to reality. It's one of my favorite routines - something I missed terribly during the remote-work years - and my foremost barometer for the changing of the seasons, which are infamously extreme in this city."
"Which, lately, seems to describe a lot of people. I've never seen so many runners along the Central Park loop, pounding pavement at an hour you'd otherwise expect them to be sitting in meetings or eating slop bowls. It's a pleasant sight and a confusing one. But I did some Googling, and of course, there is a ridiculous little word for this development. It's called "runching.""
I walk the same Central Park lunch loop from Sixth Avenue around Sheep Meadow and West Drive, using it as a seasonal barometer. Seasonal changes affect the route from slush to leaves and blossoms, and the park attracts a diverse daytime crowd. Runners now populate the loop at midday in greater numbers than before. The rise of lunchtime running, called 'runching,' is linked to hybrid workflows and a recent running boom. Increased participation in organized running and Reddit threads show runners valuing midday runs for convenience and the ability to fit exercise around caregiving and work schedules.
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