Runners World just will not go away!

😂

Time to enter the witness protection program and get a restraining order on RW.

More like Hobby Joggers World.

I think punishing real runners with garbage content is part of their strategy to take over the sport and turn it into a "activity" and the races into "events" eliminating the competition component and the possibility for slow losers to feel like losers.

And yet, after 20 years, you still haven’t spotted the apostrophe in Runner’s. You dummy.

I think a lot of magazines enroll people in free subscriptions because they need to show advertisers a certain number. My young daughter gets subscriptions to Glamour magazine and some other rag and she never signed up for them. She asked them to stop and they keep coming.

Magazines used to have no problem with subscription numbers and selling advertising. They’re dying now just like newspapers are.

OP,

I've been thinking it would be perfect if a certain Instagram influencer that you're familiar with purchased Runner's World since it seems to align perfectly with her lifestyle. Then she you could use it to further promote her brand. What do you think?

What is Clor up to these days?

Still posting every workout?

Still posting 4x a day?

Still posting "Me 20 years ago vs now" comparisons?

Still giving out crappy training advice?

Still posting videos of her awesome running form and her face where it looks like she needs to take a monster dump?

Still pushing her book and coaching services?

All of the above. Yesterday she posted her long run details, a 17 mile progression run with the last mile in 6:58. I was honestly a bit impressed.

Caaaaaaable guy!!!

On the other hand I know someone who told me he must be dead because his lifetime subscription to Runner's World expired.

Runners World will alwayyyyys find you.

Just like Marathonfoto will never stop emailing you.

"I know we said the last email was your absolute last chance to purchase your 2009 (Insert race name here) photos, but this time we really mean it. We know, we know, we have said this 9x so far this year and 31 times last year, but act now before they are gone forever. Its been 16 years and you haven't purchased them yet, surely these would be an amazing memory!"

The worst is companies that mail you catalogs after you purchase something. I've been getting vsathletics catalogs for ages.

I had never heard of this woman until a few weeks ago, when she started popping up in my Facebook feed. She seems to be a pretty good middle-aged recreational runner but I can't imagine why I or anyone else should find her particularly interesting. What am I missing?

I am glad you are enjoying my subscription gift to you.

I am certain that Runner's World has one female journalist on staff to write the obligatory DEI or intersectional running story every month, and the rest of the content is written by an LLM trained off of their voluminous back catalogue of stories.

"How to PR in the Marathon without Running a Step"

"5 Foods for a Faster Fartlek"

"Our Experts Tested New Trail Shoes: Open for the Findings!"

"Body Acceptance at an All-Time High in the Baltimore Running Community"

Perhaps sending a nasty and gross cease and desist email? Probably not though.

My parents tried that two times, but I always found them.

You're not missing anything. In the spirit of the 1st post, last week I marked "not interested" when her post popped in my feed. I thought I was in the clear then sure enough her posts started popping back into my feed again, which is how I learned about her 17 miler yesterday. I guess we keep talking about her because we can't escape her.

Maybe he is still getting the magazine because he wrote to Runners World, and Runners World had no record of him. Or he sent he his cancellation request to Runners' World...... same outcome.

He should have written to Runner's World.