Episode 250 | Raziq Rauf on Running Crews, Culture, and Community
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🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Raziq Rauf is the author of the forthcoming book, This is Running, and he also writes the popular newsletter, Running Sucks. Raz’ book, and his work in general, celebrates running as a sport, activity, and culture, and digs into the people, events, trends, and technology that push it forward.
I sat down with Raz in his adopted hometown of Los Angeles before the 2026 L.A. Marathon and we covered a wide range of topics, from the increased excitement around that particular event, to the evolution of run crew culture in that city, to the growth and strength of community in general. We also discussed his background as a journalist and a runner, how his relationship to running has evolved over time, why he started writing about running a few years ago (and how that led to the publication of his first book), and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Morning Shakeout podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | I love to run, period. |
| 0:07.2 | You can always run faster. |
| 0:09.2 | Forever, you're going to feel something. |
| 0:12.1 | You're going to run into roadblocks, but that's also going to teach you how to handle things in life. |
| 0:17.3 | I don't think we want to be like rocks where we're not affected by anything. |
| 0:23.6 | It's not maybe a physical thing, but it's a mental thing. There's like two voices in me, alpha and beta. |
| 0:26.6 | All I was really trying to do was just keep moving forward. |
| 0:31.6 | Every single runner knows what that means. |
| 0:35.6 | My life has a purpose and maybe it's not what I thought it was going to be, but... |
| 0:40.3 | There were times when I didn't think I would be able to come back. |
| 0:44.5 | There's a lot of people that had different gifts, and they don't use it. |
| 0:48.8 | I think if we all use our gifts, we could do something really special, not for ourselves, |
| 0:53.2 | but our family. |
| 0:54.3 | If we're really good, we could do something for our community, wherever we live. |
| 1:02.5 | And we're back with the latest episode of the morning shakeout podcast. |
| 1:11.9 | I am your host, Mario Fraule, and here, as always, setting this one up with me. |
| 1:17.1 | It's my right hand man, Chris Douglas. |
| 1:18.7 | Chris, good to sit down with you, in person, in your backyard on a lovely California spring day. |
| 1:24.5 | This is like kicking it old school. |
| 1:25.8 | We used to do the AMAs in my patio, |
| 1:28.4 | so it's nice to be back. Yeah. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm ramping up for London Marathon |
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