I'm the same way with other exercises. I don't get any fun out of it, it's boring.
But running is something I quite literally enjoy doing. It's almost like a drug to me, it's meditative. I get very depressed when I can't run.
Maybe try biking? Similar benefits to jogging but intrinsically less boring.
I use to be the same way when I was a kid; about going on long rides on my GT BMX bike( yes I grew up in the 80's and 90's) and also the same with relatively long skateboard rides.
But middle age, and abusing your body( alcohol, tobacco, ect) just kills that. I used to love weight lifting and because both my parents had been athletic, when I was younger, I was the same way. But it seems that when you have spent over 2 decades, using hugh amounts of booze, and then are put on downers: there is no hope. I was athletic, but on my own terms. But I truly believe, that you reach a certain age, and been sedentary for so long. Well, other than long walks to a bar or two, that it just dies. I had some video games and stuff, but during the times when it was above freezing out, I loved long bike rides, usually to some destination to a different town, alone or better with like minded people. I still remember being like 13 or 14 and and my buddy and 2 other friends, coming over and saying, ( I forget her name) get your swim shorts and a towel, we gotta a chick who said she can have some guys over for a pool party and riding 15 miles up and down hills( I lived outside Pittsburgh at the time and those hills were a bitch with only one gear. But even so the ride was great, but brutal( the gear ratio, on my GT Mach 1 was not ideal for hills, but it didn't matter, I enjoyed the brutal ride and a nice cool swimming pool, chicks in bathing suits and food waiting at the destination. Then plotting the way home and stopping off at places and enjoying the summer.
Even though I moved a lot between the ages of 12-16, I loved long bike rides. I didn't realize anything about endorphins or whatever, but even alone it was so peaceful and I enjoyed the exercise and going around the various suburbs I lived in and visiting other ones. Meeting girls, going to new places; exercise was fun.
Especially when you had a destination, like a chick who has a pool, going over to a girls house you met at the mall(it was the late 80's and early 90's) or even to a friend's house that was miles away.
But, when you get older, things change.
When you stop exercising for so long, it is nearly impossible to get motivated. When I outgrew, my bike, I would drive to the gym and I actually liked weight lifting, and saw results.
Then college, other than walking places, not much exercise. And most of the fun when in college, is well, mostly indoors stuff. Lol
I don't know how, I could ever start working out and exercising again. I think I dove head first into, the sedentary lifestyle and When that has defined your entire adult life, it seems impossible to start working out, even though there are several nice gyms nearby and ads for cheap memberships.
. Take a dog for a walk. Generally seeing how much fun the dog is having just sniffing around helps take my mind off of whatever woes I have going on.
