How not to get bored swimming lap after lap without stop?

Some of you swim like 3km or 10km without stop. It's good feat, but even when I swim for 200m I get bored, so I wonder how come you don't get bored immersing yourself underwater doing the same basic thing repeatedly for an hour or more? If I walk long distance I can still have views to look, but swimming in a 25m pool?? What would possess you to "just swim laps"? Interval training will keep you engaged, challenge you, and likely get far more accomplished in a shorter time block as compared to metronomic, empty laps. I watch the guys that do the mindless laps: they invariably do far less meters than I, swim far slower, and really appear to be miserable, bored and unchallenged. If you want to train like this, would it not be more appropriate to take up treadmill running and develop a rich and fulfilling fantasy life? At least that way you have no chance of drowning.

Some of you swim like 3km or 10km without stop. It's good feat, but even when I swim for 200m I get bored, so I wonder how come you don't get bored immersing yourself underwater doing the same basic thing repeatedly for an hour or more? If I walk long distance I can still have views to look, but swimming in a 25m pool?? What would possess you to "just swim laps"? Interval training will keep you engaged, challenge you, and likely get far more accomplished in a shorter time block as compared to metronomic, empty laps. I watch the guys that do the mindless laps: they invariably do far less meters than I, swim far slower, and really appear to be miserable, bored and unchallenged. If you want to train like this, would it not be more appropriate to take up treadmill running and develop a rich and fulfilling fantasy life? At least that way you have no chance of drowning.