When do you start calling yourself a runner?

Is it the main part of your life? Who deserves to call themselves a runner? And lets run together in NYC!

It’s a question that arose during my conversation with Dora Atim earlier this year. Dora talked about boxing with people who ran 5 miles every single day. They still started sentences with, “I’m not a runner, but…”

It’s because they identified as being a boxer. The sport they’d chosen was boxing. Even though 25-30 miles a week is a very healthy mileage for an intermediate/enthusiast runner, the thing that they’d chosen for their personality was boxing.

Was there a moment that you started thinking of yourself as a Runner? Do you also run every day and not think of yourself as a runner? Tell me about your journey to classifying yourself as a runner (or not!) in a comment, message, or simply reply to this email. I love to hear from you.

Speaking of weekly mileage, the solo runners for The Speed Project set off on their journey in the middle of last night. Normally, it’s a 340-mile relay race with 6-10 people across the desert, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, but this group is running the who…