magazines

[David]

Hello,

What is a better magazine to subscribe? Runner's World or Running Times? Any comment? Thanks

David

[Harold Buck]

In article <oHoMb.68992$BQ5.16551@fed1read03>, "David" <dy168@cox.net>
wrote:

> What is a better magazine to subscribe? Runner's World or Running Times? Any comment? Thanks

I like them both. Why don't you buy a copy of each at Barnes and Noble (which I think carries them
both) and see what you think?

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night, and party every day. Then it was every other day. . . ."

- Homer J. Simpson

[Miss Anne Throp]

They both make a marvelous bird cage liner.

[Matty G]

Depends on what you are after too. Both have some interesting articles for beginners, runners
without a coach or both. If you are after news on the sport then nothing beats Track and Field News,
but if you want somethng to help your running and keep up with any breakthroughs then Runners World
is hard to beat. Seasoned runners might find they flip past most pages but every now and then there
is a little nugget hidden in their somewhere.

Harold Buck wrote in message ...
>In article <oHoMb.68992$BQ5.16551@fed1read03>, "David" <dy168@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> What is a better magazine to subscribe? Runner's World or Running Times? Any comment? Thanks
>
>
>I like them both. Why don't you buy a copy of each at Barnes and Noble (which I think carries them
>both) and see what you think?
>
>--Harold Buck
>
>
>"I used to rock and roll all night, and party every day. Then it was every other day. . . ."
>
> - Homer J. Simpson

[Onemarathon]

In article <oHoMb.68992$BQ5.16551@fed1read03>, "David" <dy168@cox.net>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> What is a better magazine to subscribe? Runner's World or Running Times? Any comment? Thanks
>
> David
>
>

runners world is more touchy feeling with rather repetitive material in its articles. good for
occasional inspiration, but i find the info can better be gotten from a few good books. running
times is a more serious publication IMO, offering up results of int'l races for the more hard core
runners, making the reader feel more a part of the running/racing community the world over, and it's
generally more helpful in its articles. depends what you're looking for in a mag.

Cam

[Arbor77]

>They both make a marvelous bird cage liner.

This would seem to explain your endless fascination with dumping on runners...But how do they fit
all that "WEBTV" equipment into your cage?

[Doug Freese]

onemarathon wrote:

> runners world is more touchy feeling with rather repetitive material in its articles. good for
> occasional inspiration, but i find the info can better be gotten from a few good books. running
> times is a more serious publication IMO, offering up results of int'l races for the more hard core
> runners, making the reader feel more a part of the running/racing community the world over, and
> it's generally more helpful in its articles. depends what you're looking for in a mag.

To be perfectly honest and I have been reading them for close to 20 years and they are both remedial
running. I'm still friends with George Hirsch from RW(he is mostly retired from the place) and I
always busted his chops, in a friendly way, about the monthly pablum. He laughed all the way to the
bank. I stopped RT but the last editor was an old pen pal from the dead runners society years ago. I
can remember when his ambition was to to write for one of the rags and now he is head ragman.

RT when it was under the auspices of John L. Parker, etal, truly took the magazine from a remedial
099 level to a 102 level. The sad part raising the level caused the circulation to fall. Bottom
line, pablum sells. If you want serious running rags try Peak Running or Running Research news.

Having said all that, from a pure running perspective and not schedules and fluffy human interest,
you will get more information from the Runners world web page then the magazine.

--
Doug Freese "Caveat Lector" dfreeseS@NOBShvc.rr.com

[Fountainhead]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:40:37 GMT, Doug Freese <dfreese@NOBShvc.rr.com>
wrote:

>
>To be perfectly honest and I have been reading them for close to 20 years and they are both
>remedial running. I'm still friends with George Hirsch from RW(he is mostly retired from the
>place) and I always busted his chops, in a friendly way, about the monthly pablum. He laughed all
>the way to the bank. I stopped RT but the last editor was an old pen pal from the dead runners
>society years ago. I can remember when his ambition was to to write for one of the rags and now he
>is head ragman.
>
>RT when it was under the auspices of John L. Parker, etal, truly took the magazine from a remedial
>099 level to a 102 level. The sad part raising the level caused the circulation to fall. Bottom
>line, pablum sells. If you want serious running rags try Peak Running or Running Research news.
>
>Having said all that, from a pure running perspective and not schedules and fluffy human interest,
>you will get more information from the Runners world web page then the magazine.

Back in my first running "career", I seem to recall a pretty good magazine called "The Runner." This
would have been around 83, 84, somewhere in there. I thought is was far better than either RW, or
RT. I think that RW bought out The Runner, and made it disappear.

Anyone else recall this mag?

-Fountainhead

[Dot]

Doug Freese wrote:

If you want serious running rags try Peak Running or Running
> Research news.

Did you mean Peak Performance? I also get Sports Injury Bulletin for the obvious info, although
won't maintain that in the long term because of cost. But if a person is looking for race schedules
or that type info, they're better off with RW, I think (I've only bought 1 issue but have seen their
TOC) - although they're probably better off just using web.

>
> Having said all that, from a pure running perspective and not schedules and fluffy human interest,
> you will get more information from the Runners world web page then the magazine.

Agreed. But it might depend on what a person is looking for as you point out. Interestingly, very
few people in the RW ultra/trail forum subscribe to RW, but we're happy they provide a free forum :)
(TrailRunner and Ultrarunning are the main mags there.)

Dot

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