Nearly all of my kids say that too me too. It's been my biggest problem getting any of them to latch onto the 2-mile on the track (which is a different, way too boring for this forum, post).

I hated cross country, even though I ran it through college. I wasn't a very good distance runner, but I could fake it on a nice, smooth cross country course. On the track was perfect. Shorter distances, nice predictable laps.

This is apparently a very small minority view.