Runner's World (1-year)

There are many educational benefits I receive from these magazines. I enjoy their training tips to help me improve my running time. I enjoy their list of races in the back of issue so I can plan what I want to run next in my geographic area.

Most importantly, I highly appreciate the safety tips that are included. Running can be very hard on your body, as most of my cross country team learned in high school. This should become standard reading for high school students. I wish my coach had gone through an issue every month with us, highlighting how to run safely while diminishing run times.

If you run, get this magazine. If you don't run but would like to, visit their educational web page to get an idea how to start and then subcribe to the magazine so, like me, you are reminded to get off your duff and hit the streets.


Excellent magazine   March 14, 2006
007 (USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Being an infrequent runner and trying to get back into shape for the Baltimore marathon this year, Runner's World is indispensible. A number of the articles are encouraging and help me with training, diet, etc. The equipment reviews make me salivate (I wish I could afford one of the Garmin training watches), but in all it's a great magazine. I highly recommend it!


Beginner-friendly...seriously   April 25, 2006
Tauromaja (Cancun, Mexico)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I've been buying Runner's World off and on for years and everytime I pick up a copy, I never feel warded off the sport. I'm trying to train for a triathlon and everytime I pick up a magazine relating to triathlons in general, I feel like I'm the laziest ass on the planet. I'm not going to not do one because of this but it doesn't really help motivate a beginner. I love Runner's World because it's all-inclusive, for any level, for any age.

I don't get that daunting feeling I get when I pick up a tri mag and I think for anyone who needs that reassurance on a constant basis, RW really helps out.


10 star best   August 24, 2002
MotherLodeBeth (Sierras of California)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful

We subscribe to 2 running magazines and Runners World is tops. We like it simply because we buy a lot of running and walking shoes and like reading about all the shoes in the market and which ones are suited to what type runner. They have a section just for women and our needs and problems and an excellent section on nutrition and recipes, as well as excellent advise on how to get and even more importantly stay motivated, especially in horrid weather. When in the summer being in a cool room or in winter in a warm one seems more pleasurable than going outside. But when you do and start running you get energized. I have enjoyed and taken the advise given over the years about keeping a journal and even regular photographs of how one evolves and get fit and healthy via running.

The data on shoes is the best we have found and the photographs look like the real item when you go to check the shoe out and hold it in your hand and then lace it up on your foot! It is a truth in advertising publication.