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Oct 2020
12:16pm, 16 Oct 2020
12,326 posts
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larkim
x-post there - I think we agree!
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Oct 2020
2:20pm, 16 Oct 2020
1,958 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Didn't know anyone still read RW, let alone their schedules!!  I found after about 4-5 years that everything was pretty much a regurgitation of something they had done previously (recipes for muffins, how to stretch, short cut to a better you etc) so gave up the print version a couple of years ago, which felt a shame and gave up on online articles a few months ago. I don't miss it. The articles I enjoyed were the old John Bingham ones and Paul Tonkinson. They would generally have a massive article in the middle that I would wade through dutifully but never changed the world (for me).
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Oct 2020
2:23pm, 16 Oct 2020
31,986 posts
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SPR
Lol! I didn't last a year with RW!
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Oct 2020
2:24pm, 16 Oct 2020
1,959 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
I am stubborn SPR They WILL be enlightening one day...
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Oct 2020
2:32pm, 16 Oct 2020
31,988 posts
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SPR
Lol Oscar.
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Oct 2020
2:33pm, 16 Oct 2020
12,331 posts
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larkim
I got bought a sub for 12 months once, agree that Tonks was a decent read - I now enjoy him via the Running Commentary podcast instead.
Their articles still hit highly with google searches though, hence that para that I derided.
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Oct 2020
6:01pm, 16 Oct 2020
2,615 posts
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B Rubble
I started getting RW for free as the magazines on offer from a promotion I had weren't very extensive. I used to get it 15 years ago and they still seem to publish the same thing:
- Photograph of attractive man/woman on cover (usually a model I'm guessing).
- "How to run your fastest 5k on *2 weeks training/celery/your heels/your toes/barefoot/naked*"
-" How to lose weight by *2 weeks training/celery/running on your heels/running on your toes/running barefoot/running naked*"
- Article from a celebrity (??) who "used to drink 16 bottles of vodka a day and now runs a sub 15 5k" (because they started running barefoot and now only eat celery).
I shouldn't be so cynical. I did meet one of the RW journalists once who was very nice and I was mentioned as the winner in one of their featured races.
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Oct 2020
6:16pm, 16 Oct 2020
4,099 posts
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K5 Gus
Jeez, been running all those years and no-one's told me before I should run naked while drinking a bottle of voddie and eating celery. I'll get on to that tomorrow. Cheers BR
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Oct 2020
7:07pm, 16 Oct 2020
1,960 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Ha ha... BR is spot on
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Oct 2020
7:35pm, 16 Oct 2020
258 posts
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Big_G
I don’t subscribe to RW but I was featured once. They came to take pics of me and they looked after me very well with freebies etc
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