Podium Runner: Training Partners?

Running Free with the Pack
My dogs love every run, with no goals, measurements or expectations. I need that right now.
JONATHAN BEVERLY, PodiumRunner.com/AUGUST 18, 2020

For the past decade, I’ve had the privilege of running with a pack nearly every day. A pack of dogs, that is: three rescue pups with whom we’ve shared our rural home. They may be the luckiest dogs in the world, free to run leash-free with me over the trails and dirt roads of the high plains. When they’re not chasing rabbits or pheasants, they usually fall into a pattern: one out front scouting, one a bit behind herding, and one so close I can reach down and touch his head...

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Runner's World: Dog Is My Training Partner

Who Rescued Whom? Dog Adopts Elite Athlete
An abandoned mutt, who can handle 6-minute miles, turns up on a running trail and encounters a 2:32 marathoner.
Sarah Lorge Butler/Runner's World, Jan 30, 2019

Dog works in mysterious ways.

How else to explain the mystery of an abandoned dog that found the single best runner in Ocala, Florida? Stephanie Pezzullo was running in mid-December along the Santos Trail, a paved route winding out of the city. There were no other people in sight. No runners, no walkers, no cyclists. It was the middle of the day, a cold one by Central Florida standards.

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Active.com:Only Eight Of 'Em, Huh?

8 Ways to Piss Off a Runner
Caitlin Chock/Active.com

Although many runners are high on endorphins thanks to all those miles logged on the roads, trails and tracks, there are a few situations that can turn that happy mood into a sour one. Here are eight sure-fire ways to piss off a runner (details in link...)

Tripping a Runner

Hogging Lane One

Delaying Their Run

Pointing Out When They Can't Run

Delaying Post-Run Food

Provoking the Injured Runner

Calling a Runner The "J" Word

Inflicting the Jeans Debacle