Why do you run?

[#1]

Do you consider yourself to be a runner?

Whether you're occasional, habitual, or disciplined - I wonder how many runners there are here on Community?

Why do you run? To experience the benefits of physical exercise? When you run, do you listen to music, or pay attention to the world around you?

[Dave Liao]

For me, I run primarily for tourism's sake - I love signing up for races where I can run down streets that are normally reserved for cars. 🫠

My favorites?

• Philadelphia's Broad Street Run - running 10 miles along our Broad Street!
• the Paris Marathon - running down the Champs Elysees!

[Amanda Barber]

I run, but am currently on a hiatus due to an injury. Hopefully, I'll get to start back at it in a few more weeks! 

My favorite race here in Milwaukee is the Storm the Bastille 5K. It's at night and we get to run the city streets - I especially love running down the center of a specific street that give you the perfect view of two of my favorite landmarks all lined up. Plus, the art museum has lights now so they are usually lit up in red and blue for Bastille Days!

(Not my photo)

[Dave Liao]

@Amanda Barber - so timely, Bastille Day is only weeks away! 🇫🇷

In Philly we had an annual tradition of storming our local historic jail, but that stopped 7 years ago. Sadness! https://www.easternstate.org/visit/events/bastille-day

[Amanda Barber]

Woah, yours looks way more fun than mine, haha!

[Dave Liao]

I guess it was so much fun they shut it down 😂😂😂

[Brittany Joiner]

I run some! Have started in the last year, mostly just because its a low cost way to be active no matter where I am haha (doesn't require a gym unless you live in Baton Rouge in the summer... which i do lol so that's rough haha)

It's also been fun to tie it to milestones like doing a 5k and a 10k (currently training for a half marathon just to see if i can do it!) and i like the idea of taking trips somewhere fun to do them (went to Houston for my 10k and going to Toronto for my half!)

[Dave Liao]

@Brittany Joiner - you run AND you Trello? Or do you run Trello?

If I can do a half marathon, you can definitely do it. (I'm in less good shape than I care to admit...)

[Brittany Joiner]

@Dave Liao hahah i dunno, running 10k felt like a lot, im not sure how to double that 😂

[Amanda Barber]

I'll second what @Dave Liao said, @Brittany Joiner - you'll rock the half marathon. And then, I bet you take on a full. I've done three. First, to prove I could. Then, because I forgot about the suck two more times. :-D

[Brittany Joiner]

@Amanda Barber i appreciate the encouragement!! it is funny how quick you forget the suck 😂

[Daydreamer Mike]

@Brittany Joiner - you run AND you Trello? Or do you run Trello?

If I can do a half marathon, you can definitely do it. (I'm in less good shape than I care to admit...)

If only @Brittany Joiner ran Trello, Trello would run the world 😂

[Daydreamer Mike]

Dave Liao Community Champion

For me, I run primarily for tourism's sake - I love signing up for races where I can run down streets that are normally reserved for cars. 🫠

My favorites?

• Philadelphia's Broad Street Run - running 10 miles along our Broad Street!
• the Paris Marathon - running down the Champs Elysees!

I love this as a reason to run 👍

I run but i'm not a runner.  

I don't enjoy running but it offers me 2 things:

1. Running makes the weight drop off faster than any other form of exercise (in my experience)
2. Sadistically, I like to cause myself pain and I can get that by pushing myself harder than my body likes
   
   

I am not a social runner. Despite portraying this obviously outgoing and sociable exterior😂, I actually can't stand being around lots of people. I don't like competitiveness (especially the macho type) amongst people either. I get it but I don't like it, the only person I want to compete with is myself.

[Kit Friend]

I’m a fighter no a runner 😁 but when we came for 3 months to Australia when my sons were little it wasn’t so practical to find a short term dojo so I started running! Spotting the “weird group of people gathering every Saturday morning” got me into Parkrun, and I’ve kept going over since.

I really enjoy the tourism of seeing a city via running, especially on work trips, and it’s been great to find community with others - the Team run club with @Boris Berenberg - Modus Create  is an annual highlight now, and starting a run club was a rapid way to make new friends when I moved to Brisbane from the UK. 

From reluctant beginnings I’ve now done loads of half marathons, and my first full last year on the Gold Coast - not tempted by Ultras though 🤣

[Brita Moorus]

I run because it helps me clear my head and discover new places along the way. It's a perfect mix of mindfulness and adventure! 🏃‍♀️✨

I usually listen to music and podcasts when I run. I'm a bit late to the party, but I just discovered there’s a podcast called The Jira Life - definitely going to check it out on my next run! 🎧

[Brittany Joiner]

@Daydreamer Mike havent you heard the rumors??? i do run Trello 😂

And i totally know what you mean- i like to say i don't enjoy running, i enjoy being done with a run haha. And im not very social with it either 😂 even if i am running at a conversational pace, i don't want to have a conversation. And i treat treadmills at the gym with what i think are urinal rules - always leave one in between you and another person 😂

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

I stopped running for exercise when I left the military. 

I now only run if I'm being chased.

[Susan Hauth _Jira Queen_]

I started running when I was 15 as cross training for my figure skating.  I fell in love with running.  My mind clears, my body feels free and my spirit is happy when I'm running.   In my running years, I have run 9 marathons (3 Bostons, 2 NYCs and 1 Disney marathon (my fav)).  I have run countless 5k, 10k, 21k races and they have been good, bad and ugly but always worth it.  I have run when it's -35C and when it's +35C, neither of which I recommend!

Running friends are your closest and best friends.  Everything is shared on a run and stays on the run.  I met my soon to be husband running the beer mile (4 beers, 1 mile..that was ugly). 

I pack my running shoes on business trips and have run alongside the Thames in London, beside the Ottawa canal and the beachfront in Cape Town.   I have raced pushing my twins in a running stroller in the Bay Street Rat Race in Toronto.  I have dressed up for countless Santa shuffles.

As I approach 50 years of running, the racing is behind me (so are the injuries) and I simply run for the pure love of the run and a good chat with my running girlfriends!!

Never stop running!!!

[Dave Liao]

@Amanda Barber - I try to space marathons far enough apart that I forget why I don't run them more often. Ha! 😂

@Kit Friend - looking forward to eventually doing a run with you and Boris! I find it challenging to wake up early during our conferences sometimes...