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Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

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Jogging is a truly healthy activity for both physical and mental health; we all know this already. For some people, it comes naturally. For others, it’s either a struggle not worth contemplating or just a little, well, boring.

Without a jogging buddy or any element of competition, how do you spice up your runs? Well, there are now plenty of apps that you can download, that keep track of things like speed, distance, heart rate, calories burned and even challenges against other users to keep you motivated.

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Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

San Franciscan Lenny Maughan doesn’t have any problems with motivation though, he loves to run! He uses the social fitness app Strava to create amazing pieces of ‘running art;’ carefully planning his route beforehand to run in the pattern of a certain image with the streets of San Fran as his canvas.

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Lenny sometimes has to run incredible distances – his ‘Frida Kahlo’ masterpiece covered 29 miles and took almost 6 hours to complete – all the while being careful not to make any mistakes. A single wrong turn can ruin the whole piece!

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Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

“You can’t see the lines drawn until after you finish your run,” Lenny told SFGATE. “So it’s such a joyful feeling when you put in all of that work and you finally finish and get to see what you envisioned at the end.”

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

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“San Francisco is my canvas. I use the streets as a framework for what I want to do, find shapes, and make it work. Kind of like how little kids look up at the clouds.”

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Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Lenny has been doing his running art for over 3 years now and has created 30 unique designs. Far from the stereotypical image of an artist sitting patiently at an easel for days on end, painstakingly applying the gentlest of brush strokes, this very modern type of art is as exhausting physically as it is mentally!

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

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Image credits: Lenny Maughan

What do you think? Do you enjoy jogging, or is it something that you find boring and a struggle? Scroll down to see the rest of Lenny’s hard-earned art for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

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Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

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Image credits: Lenny Maughan

Runner Uses The Streets As His Canvas, Maps Out Artistic Designs With His Routes (31 Pics)

Image credits: Lenny Maughan

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Denis Tymulis

Denis is a photo editor at Bored Panda. After getting his bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design, he tried to succeed in digital design, advertising, and branding. Also, Denis really enjoys sports and loves everything related to board sports and water.

Denis is a photo editor at Bored Panda. After getting his bachelor's degree in Multimedia and Computer Design, he tried to succeed in digital design, advertising, and branding. Also, Denis really enjoys sports and loves everything related to board sports and water.

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James is a Bored Panda reporter who graduated with a BA in Peace And Conflict Studies and an MA in African Affairs. Before Bored Panda, he was an English teacher and also travelled a lot, doing odd jobs from beer-slinging to brickie's labourer and freelance journalism along the way. James loves covering stories about social and environmental issues and prefers to highlight the positive things that unite us, rather than petty internet squabbles about fictional characters. James is the grumpy, contradictory one who thinks that Bored Panda, due to its large audience, has a social responsibility to inspire and inform its readers with interesting issues and entertaining, well-researched stories. Let's do our bit to make our little corner of the internet a smarter, more truthful and less angry place!

James is a Bored Panda reporter who graduated with a BA in Peace And Conflict Studies and an MA in African Affairs. Before Bored Panda, he was an English teacher and also travelled a lot, doing odd jobs from beer-slinging to brickie's labourer and freelance journalism along the way. James loves covering stories about social and environmental issues and prefers to highlight the positive things that unite us, rather than petty internet squabbles about fictional characters. James is the grumpy, contradictory one who thinks that Bored Panda, due to its large audience, has a social responsibility to inspire and inform its readers with interesting issues and entertaining, well-researched stories. Let's do our bit to make our little corner of the internet a smarter, more truthful and less angry place!

What do you think ?

'Adilah Wafa 5 years ago

That is a WHOLE LOT of motivation!

19points

CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago

This man is amazing! He encourages exercise in an... interesting way!!!!! :)

12points

A Jones 5 years ago

This is pretty cool and very creative. :)

11points

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'Adilah Wafa 5 years ago

That is a WHOLE LOT of motivation!

19points

CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago

This man is amazing! He encourages exercise in an... interesting way!!!!! :)

12points

A Jones 5 years ago

This is pretty cool and very creative. :)

11points

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