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NO MEDAL, NO PROB
It’s 5am. I sneak out of bed, careful not to wake up my husband. Bleary-eyed and not yet fully awake, I make my morning coffee and sit contemplating “Why am I getting up so early for a social run?!”
Runners love races. We grab the medals at the end, eager to prove that we finished. We check out our splits compulsively. We high-five our friends and share our race results on Strava. So why is the social run becoming increasingly popular?
When I started running many, many moons ago, I was a
