2023 in review, 2024 in preview

Running Sucks hasn't even been in the world for a year, but 'tis the season to do a recap.

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A warm welcome to the Running Sucks 2023 recap. Allow me to explain what I’ve been doing and what I’ve learned along the way.

I began in March, primarily to keep my journalistic muscles in practice. Having left two decades of talking to rock bands behind, I missed speaking to interesting people. This was to scratch that itch, but with luminaries of the running world.

Always one to gamify my life, I aimed to achieve 500 subscribers by the end of 2023 (now). It turns out that 1,000 people in 65 countries signed up to read my work by October 12th. A nice milestone but that’s all - I write for one person the same way as for 1,000.

A little pictorial explanation of Running Sucks in 2023

This is a nice moment to consider what I was really trying to do by writing about these people? I had an initial idea, but really figured it out as I went along.

My big go…