Is Running More Popular

[millwalki8]

Is it just that we are runners we notice more runners?

I counted 18 runners on my commute through Cambridge this morning

[no-excuse Graduate]

Yeah I see loads now, where do they all come from? Even my husband shouts out 'runner!', which has me rushing to the window to see if I know them x

[roseabi]

On Hove sea front it sometimes seems like there are more runners than walkers!

[misswobble Graduate]

Runners flock to Cambridge cos it's flat! Nah only jesting. I think the sudden warm spell has made folks rush to get in their runs before the weather breaks again.

[RainbowC Graduate]

I'm apparently known to one local dog owner not as 'the one with that little terrier', but 'the one who's always running around the village', as a friend told me (after meeting her while walking my dog!)... There aren't many runners out here in the sticks, but I definitely notice them more nowadays than I used to.

[Dunder2004 Graduate]

Possibly weather related?

[Michael_W Graduate]

Yes, I think runners notice other runners but it's also true that running is increasingly popular.

How about this: my wife can spot runners that she knows just by their gait. It's a kind of magic!

[millwalki8 Graduate in reply to Michael_W]

True, when my wife was pregnant there seemed to be loads of mothers to be around.

[BoPeep9009 Graduate]

I was recently in England (for a race) and thought the place was positively swarming with runners! From Brighton to Northampton they were everywhere!

Also that new grad girl, ridingstar, she seems to have got a fair few out there and I bet each of us has, wittingly or unwittingly, influenced at least one person to start running ... Its like pyramid selling without the money!!!

[goonkeepgoing Graduate]

My friend who has been running for years tells me that this is the most popular time of year for running. She assures me (unfortunately) that come October I will be running in virtual solitude again for 6 months!

[Curlygurly2 Graduate]

I think Cambridge runners must all go out in the early mornings. I generally run about 10 AM and rarely see another runner.

[millwalki8 Graduate in reply to Curlygurly2]

You can't see a lot through the Afro