Weekly Strides: What Makes a "Good" Runner? - Ep. 12
The Running for Real Podcast
Tina Muir
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
What makes a "good" runner?
Ooof! Well, that is quite the question! I believe we each have a different answer for that one. One of the beautiful things about running is that there are so many reasons people run, and our answers may change over time, which I think is wonderful.
If you asked me what a “good” runner was five years ago, I would have told you something along the lines of, someone who competes at the local level and finishes in the top third of their field.
Now? I believe what makes someone a good runner is that they love what they do. It is not about where anyone finishes; I think the real challenge, and the real beauty that comes from our sport, is when we are able to hold on to that joy of being able to run because we want to, because we love it, and because it makes us a better person. It is easy to slip into complacency and take each run for granted, but what makes someone good is that they recognize and appreciate what a gift each and every run is. That could be a world class athlete who sees the Olympics as an opportunity to enjoy themselves or it could be the person who finishes last in a local parkrun. I love that about our sport!
Does that definition make me a good runner? Sometimes? Working on it? ;)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends and welcome to weekly strides. Your Wednesday update post where I will be answering |
| 0:17.8 | one of your questions that you have either emailed to me. This has been asked in running |
| 0:22.0 | for your superstars that has been asked on various other places that you have wondered. |
| 0:27.3 | I decided to take your questions and begin to answer them so that you could have my real, |
| 0:32.8 | raw, rambling answer rather than most places that we go, it tends to be a very sterile, |
| 0:41.5 | very factual but there's just not really any emotion in it. So this is my way of allowing you to |
| 0:47.8 | submit your questions, get a real answer to it. Future episodes of weekly strides we will be |
| 0:54.2 | featuring listeners so if you want to be considered for that please let us know and we will also be |
| 1:00.1 | bringing on previous guests to check in with how they are. If you have a question you would like |
| 1:05.1 | to submit you can email catatrunningforreal.com that's katatatrunningforreal.com and I look forward |
| 1:12.5 | to answering your questions soon. Let's get to it. What makes a good runner? If you can see me right |
| 1:23.0 | now you'd see I was using air quotation marks to say good. That is quite the question and I believe |
| 1:30.9 | we all have a different answer for that one. That's one of the beautiful things about running is that |
| 1:35.9 | there are so many reasons people run and our answers are going to change over time which I think is |
| 1:41.8 | just wonderful. If you asked me what a good runner was five years ago I would have told you something |
| 1:47.4 | along the lines of someone who competes at the local level and finishes in the top third of their |
| 1:52.5 | field someone who commits and does the best they can someone who you know is able to be successful |
| 1:59.5 | I don't know would have given you kind of the usual things that we perceive in society as success. |
| 2:05.8 | Now though I honestly think what makes someone a good runner is that they love what they do. |
| 2:11.4 | It's not about where anyone finishes for me I think the real challenge and the real beauty |
| 2:17.3 | from our sport comes from when we're able to hold on to that joy and be able to run because we want |
| 2:23.2 | to because we love it because it makes us a better person and I say hold on to that joy it's kind |
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