Running together, city by city
Running is the easiest sport to start on your own and the hardest to keep up that way. There is no shortage of people: what's missing is knowing who is going out today, at what time and at what pace — which is exactly what nobody writes down anywhere.
Running, city by city
What makes a run with strangers work
- Pace comes before distance
- Ten kilometres at 4:30 and ten at 6:00 are not the same plan at two speeds: they are two plans. That's why a running Nid states the pace first. It is the one thing that decides whether you'll be talking for the next hour or hanging two metres off the back.
- The long run is the one you feel
- Midweek, going alone is no great hardship. Sunday morning, with ninety minutes ahead of you, is when company stops being a bonus and becomes the difference between going out and staying in.
- Nobody is waiting on you
- An open run is not a club and it isn't a coached session. Someone proposes a day, a place and a pace, and whoever fits joins in; on the day it doesn't suit you, you owe nobody an explanation.