Archive - Running Sucks

Running ultras with type 1 diabetes: “Just give me some sugar. It’ll be fine.”

Jonty Brown has learned a lot about navigating his sugar levels while running ultramarathons, including The Speed Project solo a year ago

Mar 27 • Raziq Rauf

What do you love/hate most about running?

More looks inside my book, This is Running, and how to take part from afar.

Mar 23 • Raziq Rauf

The free radical driving gender parity on The Speed Project’s starting line

Tilly GW has challenged the gender makeup of TSP to immediate success, but there’s more work to be done. She’s doing it.

Mar 20 • Raziq Rauf

How to really get off your phone

Plus all info about my book tour with Salomon

Mar 16 • Raziq Rauf

Los Angeles Marathon debrief

Plus: G is for Gravel, and I may be coming to a town near you!

Mar 9 • Raziq Rauf

It's L.A. Marathon week, and it's BIG

And here's the first event for This is Running. Please come!

Mar 2 • Raziq Rauf

February 2026

How to be the calm in the marathon weekend storm

I speak to Monica DeVreese about Rabbit's Clubhouse series in Chamonix, Chicago, and New York

Feb 27 • Raziq Rauf

Papers, please.

What I'm doing about having run with ID on my person, and also N is for Nutrition.

Feb 23 • Raziq Rauf

The conspicuous consumption of running culture

I talk about food culture in running with journalist and ultrarunner Zoë Rom

Feb 19 • Raziq Rauf

Do you like to run fast?

I like to run fast, and I did (for a few seconds.)

Feb 16 • Raziq Rauf

Taking $20k from a racist city

If you want the world to change, you have to change it yourself

Feb 2 • Raziq Rauf

January 2026

From Marathons to Michelin Stars

Bobby Stuckey talks to me about training for a marathon while being an international restaurateur, and how that training schedule can help others in the…

Jan 22 • Raziq Rauf

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