Jogging is a healthy activity that helps in both physical and mental health, for others, it can be a struggle not worth contemplating or just a little boring.
Many apps help you in jogging, it keeps track of things like speed, distance, heart rate, calories burned and even challenges against other users to keep you motivated.
San Franciscan Lenny Maughan loves to run! He uses the social fitness app Strava to create amazing pieces of ‘running art, he plans his route to run in the pattern of a certain image with the streets of San Fran as his canvas.
Lenny sometimes has to run incredible distances, his ‘Frida Kahlo’ masterpiece covered 29 miles and took almost 6 hours to complete.
“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.”
“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.”
Lenny creating art while running 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!
“When I was a kid everyone thought I’d be an artist when I grew up – I was always drawing things,” he said.
But such local links are just coincidental, he said. His goal is to create images anyone can recognize: “This is just a way to make the streets my own.”
Check out his artworks!
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