Reply To: Running Shoes (2022)

[Ryan Jenkins]

It’s kind of baffling isn’t it? Having worked for Vacation Races and Virtual Running Club for years, this is such a common theme. Someone might run 4 half marathons a year and they’ve completed races in 48 different states but they still don’t consider themself a runner?

I think it comes from standard human impostor syndrome. We don’t feel qualified to call ourselves runners until enough other people confirm that we are, indeed, runners.

[Ryan Jenkins]

It’s kind of baffling isn’t it? Having worked for Vacation Races and Virtual Running Club for years, this is such a common theme. Someone might run 4 half marathons a year and they’ve completed races in 48 different states but they still don’t consider themself a runner?

I think it comes from standard human impostor syndrome. We don’t feel qualified to call ourselves runners until enough other people confirm that we are, indeed, runners.