How do you make a new runner?

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

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 …