Running Sucks

Running Sucks

The Weakly

How do you make a new runner?

Plus: my pre- and post-run fueling strategy, and my wildly inconsistent year of running to date

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Raziq Rauf
Apr 21, 2025

How to make new runners is something I think about deeply often as the lead coach for my Tuesday morning run crew.

My focus has always been on helping beginner runners and non-runners become lifelong runners, but the tentative enquiries I receive online always fixate on being too slow for the group. There’s a sense of inevitable failure, and the fear of …

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