Runner's World sucks because...

thank you for posting. You detailed my emotions with facts. this is exactly what I meant in my thread responses. yeah, i don't have to buy the magazine, but not many airport bookstores have Running Times and I hate reaching for RW knowing that I'll have to hunt for 1 or 2 pages of substance between the oil, Andean protein substitue, and pretty pics of people that care what they look like when they give birth or run or both.

you had me for a minute and then the bottom fell out of the thread. what does the Spain debacle have to do with RW?

quinoa wrote:

Dean Karno on the front cover - oiled up.

Is he on there again this month? DAMN IT!!

no, it's Jen Rhines...all lubed up and posing like the mac sista of the marathon....she's got a full spread of her in there perfectly-snapped, rehearsed, and oiled.

You suck for starting this thread! Get off your ass and start your own damn magazine if you don't like it! No one is holding a gun to your head to go buy the magazine.

does having no other options for running magazines at an airport magazine kiosk before a transcontinental flight count as a 'a gun to the head?' i may suck, but i can suck publically and idiotically while voicing my contempt for a suck-arse magazine run by people out to entertain cattle and make bucks -- not like running motivations in the 70s. thanks again for bringing this to the top! now go make some of your organic quinoa.

About a year and a half ago, I was reading through the section of runners world where people write questions and one of the runners world guys responds. Someone asked a question about passing people at the end of the race. In the response, the runners world writer stated that it is rude to outkick someone in the last 100 meters of a race. He basically said that unless you're in the olympic finals, you should be satisfied with the place that you're in before entering the last 100. I threw the magazine away and haven't opened another runners world since.

Sitting on the sh-tter, turning the page and seeing that quinoa is an Andean food that I can find it in the bulk .....

You're not from Kansas are you W??

If you want a magazine that only talks about elite runners, why don't you go write one yourself

Runners World Doesn't Suck wrote:

If you want a magazine that only talks about elite runners, why don't you go write one yourself

Nice one smart stuff.

Runner's World is ridiculous, and it caters to the lazy american who wants the easiest possible way to get in shape and finish a marathon while running as little as possible. All the crap about '8 ab workouts for a fast marathon,' or '10 foods you have to eat to improve your running.' All this is utter crap and an excuse for joggers to do their funky little ab workouts and get their vitamins in instead of getting out there and fricking running. The quote that best epitomizes the absurdity of the magazine is "Train Less, Run Faster" WTF? I think it was something about running a marathon on three days of running a week. That's bullshit. Run more, run smarter, run faster. Runner's World takes people away from the truth about training.

It should be called Jogger's world, cus no real runner gets anything out of it.

The day that RW included an article about the best lipsticks to wear while running was the day I felt like the biggest sucker on the planet.

It's a recreational runners fitness magazine.... Not a running racers mag....

The worst rag is T&FN. I saw a copy the other day at a 10k. Crappy articles. Blurry pictures. No website links. We're runners, yet they have no Ethiopian nor Kenyan correspondents. I used the copy I picked of T&FN as toilet paper.