I’ve never understood the idea of people feeling part of a community around a brand (commerce). But here is Andrew setting an example of bringing his sense of hospitality, shared interests and skill at building connection with others to his boutique and it makes sense. Love it!
As a separate question, track and field has always had steady popularity as far as I know for teen sports, but has the popularity of longer run clubs filtered down to making cross-country more popular for high school kids, too? It was my true sports love, but definitely fringe and hard to get kids to sign up when I was a teenager in the 90s.
I think a large part of that is growing up with multinational corporations being our standard, whereas the local butcher was a genuine community hub 50+ years ago. A business doesn't need to be a big, evil thing. I think the world can be a warmer place when correct-thinking local business owners lead the way.
As for cross country... It's still big enough for university scholarships and records are still being broken, so maybe it is becoming more popular? I don't have the numbers for that... YET! I'll have a think 🫡
What's the next part of non-running culture that adopts running? That is a great question.
I think about the things that I'm interested in: TV Shows, Movies, Baseball, Business and Finance, Coffee and Pizza.
Any one of those things could connect me to running but a run that goes through various areas that a TV show or movie was filmed in would be cool.
For example, let's bring up Bosch (again!) and there are areas that they filmed in that could be a connect the dots of runs. You get to see those spaces, run, then chat with fans of the show.
I’ve never understood the idea of people feeling part of a community around a brand (commerce). But here is Andrew setting an example of bringing his sense of hospitality, shared interests and skill at building connection with others to his boutique and it makes sense. Love it!
As a separate question, track and field has always had steady popularity as far as I know for teen sports, but has the popularity of longer run clubs filtered down to making cross-country more popular for high school kids, too? It was my true sports love, but definitely fringe and hard to get kids to sign up when I was a teenager in the 90s.
I think a large part of that is growing up with multinational corporations being our standard, whereas the local butcher was a genuine community hub 50+ years ago. A business doesn't need to be a big, evil thing. I think the world can be a warmer place when correct-thinking local business owners lead the way.
As for cross country... It's still big enough for university scholarships and records are still being broken, so maybe it is becoming more popular? I don't have the numbers for that... YET! I'll have a think 🫡
What's the next part of non-running culture that adopts running? That is a great question.
I think about the things that I'm interested in: TV Shows, Movies, Baseball, Business and Finance, Coffee and Pizza.
Any one of those things could connect me to running but a run that goes through various areas that a TV show or movie was filmed in would be cool.
For example, let's bring up Bosch (again!) and there are areas that they filmed in that could be a connect the dots of runs. You get to see those spaces, run, then chat with fans of the show.
My friend, you must join me on the next LA Cinephile Club run
https://www.runningsucks101.com/p/la-cinephile-run-club-film-tourism-fitness-fun
But we can should also do a Bosch run together 🫡
Love it! All you folks out here creating third spaces and community? My hat is tipped you!