Making Friends & Influencing People: The L.A. Craft Runners

At the end of a run, a cold beer is as good as a medal, because while winning is good, with this running community, it’s the turning up that counts.

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It’s nice to have a reward at the end of a run. It’s a tangible target to aim for at the end of your exertions. For serious athletes, that’s a podium finish, but for 99% of us running one of the numerous 5k or 10k races on any given weekend, that is a souvenir medal.

For those who run with the Los Angeles Craft Runners every Tuesday from a different L.A. craft brewery, it’s a cold pint of beer with friends. With the 6th anniversary of the run club coming up, I talk to the husband-and-wife founders, Edgar Corral and Liz Quick-Corral.

Liz Quick-Corral and Edgar Corral of the L.A. Craft Runners holding the same pug, Penny the Pug, in the same brewery, on the same day, but in different photos.

When Edgar and Liz met, a decade ago in Orange County, it was running that they bonded over. Liz was running most…