When I was training for my first marathon, I found Jenn's profile on Dailymile. She was also training for a marathon, and our paces for almost every type of workout were spot on with mine. Of course I had to friend her, message her, and tell her we should be BFFs immediately. And then we were. Thanks to the magic of Dailymile. Unfortunately for me, she moved away 4 short months after we met.
Luckily for me, she introduced me to Megan, who's also a runner, so I was able to get an occasional running buddy since she doesn't live in the same town as me, but she's busy growing a baby right now, so we haven't been able to do many runs together for the last 8 months. Harumph.
For the last six months. I've been meeting up with a new runner friend Jenn who I met through some other local runners to get in our miles and our gab sessions. It's awesome. I seriously wish I could run with her every single day. But she's running paces like I used to run, so I feel like I'm slowing her down when we run together. She's training for her first marathon this summer, so I've promised her I'll be back to normal speed by June so we can plan to spend some of our long runs together!
But I'm greedy. I want more. More running friends! After spending the last few months actually having company for a long run, I realize how much I miss it. I've often joked about making Runner Business Cards to hand out to people I see on the bike trail with my name and email and my general running paces to have them contact me so we can be running BFFs.
Maybe I should plan a speed dating meet up for runners. But like...running buddies instead of dating.
But seriously. How have you met your running buddies??? Is it super weird to just go up to people after races and demand they be your running buddy? I suck at putting myself out there, but maybe I need to just suck it up and do it!
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Whenever I see people out running at odd times like me (10am, 2pm, 6pm on a Saturday because I'm cool like that), I want to chase them down and ask who they are and if they always run at that time because OMG let's be best friends.
Haven't decided if that's creepy yet or not.
But mostly I find running friends through twitter because I'm too awkward otherwise.
I can't wait until we can run together again! I'm thinking I might have to start a stroller brigade here and find other runners who are working their way back after having babies.
I want to be your running buddy! Stupid distance! I have running friends, that I've met through organized meet ups. Do you have a local running store in town or run groups? We have several and they have free/social runs once a week. 3 milers or so. It's just a way to meet other runners and if you click, then you can date them - running date them per say. Recently, I found a running group that doesn't require a membership fee. They meet once a week and run 10 miles. I've ran with them once. Good times! Can't wait to run in Vegas with you.
-dom
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