Meat and potatoes

The 'meat and potatoes' run, not necessarily the most fun of runs but it's great for that base mileage. The picture enclosed is where I do my meat and potatoes run. It's flat, fairly uneventful, but it's trail. I do have to pound the pavement 1km to get to it but once I'm on it I can go for a fair distance( all connected its about 35km of trail).
I try to do my one hour-ish meat and potatoes run about 3 to 4 times a week, this mixed in with a long run as well. As its the off season I'm not really doing any tempo or speed work, I'll throw in a couple 'pick ups' near the end of the run to keep it interesting.
Also I do some riding throughout the week, both riding to work(16km round trip) on my mountain bike and spinning at home on my road bike. At home I also do my own little cardio and strength training exercises down in the garage.
Keeping the motivation to get out for those base mileage runs is difficult sometimes but we all know that once we get done one of these runs it sure feels great. Breath in that fresh air, warm up that muscle memory, get a little rain on the back of your neck. Run!