See yourself in one of these? Or is your running buddy guilty of being one? Maybe we’ve missed one off? Tell us in the comments. ↓

People who are running around in the parking lot after the run is finished to hit a specific nice round number.

People who put their whole life story in the starva heading for their run. “Cheeky 5k after work. Bit wet and windy, wore a coat and gloves. Ended up taking the coat off as I got a bit warmed up. No pb but felt good, will try again tomorrow”

Early morning/avoid people runner: 100% me. All summer I was like "the sun is up, better get out there quick before people wake up!"

"Anyone who runs is a runner." Beautiful!!!!

The "early morning to avoid the crowds" runner - that's me! When I first started running in July 2020 I did it because I was too embarrassed to be seen running by people . Now I do it because it's the best way to get good times.

Early morning to avoid crowds. 🙋🏾 Up by 4am. Love the Empty streets. The world is mine 🙌🏾

I'm in a sub-category of the Newbie Runner: Mid-Life Crisis Runner Motivated by Avoiding Certain Family Genetics

I laughed at the grey hoodie of the gym runner, yes they all wear grey hoodies! 😂

I started running in March of 2020, and virtual races were a good motivator and a way to see progress so I did quite a few. I've also run in three live races, including my first half! I have to admit I'm the new runner who CONSTANTLY talks about my runs, gear, shoes, the science of running...on and on. I post my runs on Facebook and sometimes think I'm annoying people, but I was shocked to hear how many people have told me I inspire them! Thanks for your great videos, which have been a crucial support in my running journey. ❤🏃🏻‍♀️

I'm 100% the "get up to avoid the crowds" person. I had a 32km run on Monday and the people were unavoidable. It reconfirmed my commitment to getting up extra early

Rick is hilarious. Natural comedian .

Feeling attacked by the early morning to beat the crowds

Another stereotype: Injured by overdoing it during lockdown, desperate to make the most of time outdoors. That's me!

The my kids are driving me crazy at home needed some peace and quiet runner.

Dont forget the "Cozy runner". Usually middleaged women running slowly around the neighbourhood with their friend to get healthy!

Clearly out of the loop, because I assumed "FKT" was just a polite way of saying "f-ck it". ... because I've definitely been a f-ck it runner this year.

There’s a growing trend of people who run while talking to their GoPro cameras...

I'm the opposite of "elapsed time runner", never pause my run. Your time doesn't pause during a race, why should it pause while you're training? If a 30 minute run takes 33 minutes, that's ok, it will be 30 minutes next time.

This is spot on. I'm a rekindled runner who did a load of virtual events, gets up to avoid the crowds or run-commutes to or from my home office via a local loop.

I'm happily "The Newbie". Have gone from 23 to 18 stone thanks to running (and careful lifestyle). Completed a cheeky 8k today. Thank you Running Channel for all your advice and motivation during 2020!!

Guess I’m the newbie, old man, virtual runner.😃 I committed to just finishing and watching my running distance increase. That is, how far I could run without walking or stopping altogether. Great year!!!

Someone give Rick an oscar for the role of "rule breaker"

Two virtual races in 2020, and three "real" ones. So thankful to be able to run!

No matter the distance, every run is apparently "cheeky" 🤦‍♂️

I keep learning and re-forgetting that I’m an “avoid people” runner now - I gave myself a late start on my long run last weekend to avoid the bitter wind a bit and there were SO MANY PEOPLE on my route! Many swear words were uttered as I had to stop my run and wait for people to walk by🤦🏻‍♀️

I'm the praise runner. I love giving runners a boost when it looks like they are struggling. It always feels nice to make someone smile and maybe struggle a little less.

I'm the rekindled runner! I started running in 2017 with C25K, got to 5K and then stopped after a while. I took up running again last year (C25K again) to lose my 'Rona weight gain. It totally worked! I'm fitter than I've ever been and I run 5K 3-4 times a week. My next goal is a sub-30 5K. My current PB is 34.24. . .

I'm definitely the "early morning to avoid crowds runner". It is so nice to avoid mainly the cars in the morning. I laughed when you said 4am cause that is my wake up to run time. lol.

I firmly fall into the Newbie category. I subscribed to my new favourite running channel and devour all of your excellent videos. I have to stop myself boring everyone to death about my new passion. My partner knows all about every twist and turn of my latest run with rundowns of times and weather conditions....she listens...I think! Great video guys but I have to say Rick did look a little scary sneaking out of his house!!!

Love this new format of you guys all out on your runs! It's very well done, almost like you are talking together!

I’m the newbie. And yes I post everything & have all the gear since I am “the tech guy”

I'm a 'working from home' runner and a rule-breaker runner, it's hard to choose between switch off runs or family walks! But I would also be a 'Life Story on Strava' runner as I often talk about bodily functions, food, clothes, people and animals alongside talking about uni life all on most runs in Strava. Thanks for this video, I love it!

I’m DEFINITELY the newbie, as I’m lacing up to go for my last C25K run today! 😅😂 2020 sucked, but it got me running and I’ll be forever grateful for that!

OMG, the rule breaker - two run day, hilarious. His face going out the door, then the forward roll!!!

Rick is my Oscar-nominee 😂 (assuming the award ceremony will be cancelled this year 😂🙈)

"Early morning avoid the crowds runner" 🙋🏻‍♂️ me, starts my runs at 3am.

I’m a new runner in 2020... and proud to be loud and vocal about how much I enjoy it and how it has changed my life and could change some of my friends!

lol! I'm the early morning virtual 5k runner. It's too hot by the time the sun comes over the top of the mountain for me, also running in the dark keeps the flies and mosquitos at bay. Added bonus - I don't see anyone ;-) Love you guys.

Started running the treadmill C25K October 2019, and had taken a break when the gyms closed, but finally it dawned on me to just move outside and run outdoors and now I won't look back. so I find myself generally in some of the scenarios LOL. Love the channel!

2:00 my sister asked me why I was laughing so much 😂 but really, where do I put my water bottle? 😂

There's also the runner who tries to make funny pictures out of their Strava route tracker!

i did my first 5k in 2020. couch to 5k. now i can sub 24 for a 5km. I know i'm still slow but i'm glad i'm feeling happier and healthier than ever! :D

The Virtual runner/Newbie (Kind of) I used 2020 and working from home as an excuse to get in better shape and focused on running. Signed up for a bunch or virtual races as motivation and my two daughters even joined in a couple of the 5ks to earn their medals. Side note, just discovered your channel today... wish I had a lot of these tips back in March!

Newbie... first few times I ran in my Kalenki, then I went to get some serious shoes after running 2 months ... I said: I just want some comfy trainers🤣. The shop guy just kept asking things that I did not have a clue. I plan to go next saturday again... and thank him for his advice and also impress him with my new knowledge after a few more months running and learning.

I started running properly in January 2020...I fall squarely into that and the working from home runner and I do pause the watch when waiting to cross roads if they're busy roads

"Usually runs at the gym", guilty as charged. Used to do about 6 miles/week there, but now I do ~40/week outside. I'm a real runner now. I also run crazy early, but only because I have time, not because I want to avoid crowds.

What is the FKT runner here in PA? Hey there's a mountain nobody's ever run up. What's it named? Nobody ever bother to name it? Ok. I get to make up a mountain name and run a new FKT path.

I am a newbie this year. Love the videos guys! Appreciate all you do. So much info and entertainment to go along with it. Keep it up!

Hahahahahah these are brilliant! Some I have not even heard of. Great records too! I have to admit I am the 'working-from-home-loop-back-to-home and make the 9am Zoom meeting; just in time. One thing from lockdown = learning new (local) routes :) - Stay safe folks!

Avoid the crowds, got me there. We have a curfew in my state in Germany from 8 pm to 5 am, so naturally: I wake up 30 minutes before it ends, do my warm up and go for my run right when it ends.

2020 has been mainly channelling “the injured runner”.

I am a newbie, good old c25k. I am now training for the Brighton half in June. I can't stop going on about how amazing running is and I live in running gear...

Back before gps watches ruled the world I always logged runs. I simply noted distance (estimated), time, and trainers used. Friends went to different levels in logging information. Some included weather conditions, wind direction...and one was so precise that he would write every single detail, including things like which way round a lamppost he went! The best runner I ever knew personally (over 50s international) never even used a watch. His philosophy was that his legs remembered what they’d done!

Early morning runner-always, even before 2020.

Lol, I am definately your 2020 newbie. But at 66, I am a newbie again. Through the decades I have been a runner, but also a non-runner. I have to say I am enjoying it now more than I ever have.

Pause and Go....then post it on the group chat as one continual run 😂😂😂😂

Rekindled here!! Technically I rekindled just before the pandemic hit, but once I had all that time, I definitely upped my game. Loved this vid, thank you!!

I started doing the early runs after the clocks went forward last March. In midsummer I was out of the door before 5 in the morning regularly. I did my first early of the year last week and plan to do most runs early between now and October. Best time of day to run without question.

😂😂😂 I fit multiple profiles!!! Thank you for a nice chuckle after my Saturday morning long run which is not on Strava 🙃

Love your videos, coooool awesome video, massive thumbs up.

How about the STRAVA segment hunter, look I found a new segment were am I ranked...Hahah smile everyone its all running!

Converting from early morning runner to elapsed time 😂

You missed the grumbly old codger who got into parkrun just before the lockdown and can't stop complaining about the price of the equipment. "It's supposed to be a cheap activity! Do you know what these shoes cost? Do you!?" As a prelude to complaining, at length, about the weather. Another good show, by the way. Well done!

I'm the "Thinks everybody wants to talk about running all the time" runner. And, after watching this video the "Would love to go for a run in the UK" runner.

Love it! I’m the new to running! And a bit of elapsed runner!

I'm thankful virtual runs are a thing. The CLOSEST 5K event near me is 200 kilometers away.

Hey Running Channel! A super cool runner I know set a pretty great time running the Jordan trial (North to south - I think it is 675 km). Jordanian terrain is awesome but extremely hilly. I love it, though!

rekindled runner here :P never going back again!

Definitely a rekindled runner here. I take off every icy snowy winter then start again in the spring. In March with lockdown, I became a KZfaq nut, kindled my interest in ultras... and went from a casual slow half marathon runner to a serious slow ultra runner. 2021 = slightly less slow ultra runner!

I'm a rekindled WFH runner! Running provided so much fun and adventure for me throughout 2020 and I don't know how I ever got out of the habit in the first place! I'm all about the lunchtime runs now that there is no shower queue!

I started running again in March 2020 I run at least 4 days a week. And love it. It’s my medicine. Am not fast but would like to get faster. I can run 9 miles now without stopping. My aim is to be able to do 13 miles but for it to be easy. 😊😍 great video, lovely to see all of you in it. 👍🏼

I'm possibly a subset of the "Early Morning to Avoid the Crowds" runner, that has also been planning in runs on days that are likely to not have many people out generally (Not too early Sundays, and Christmas Day), and finding new routes that avoid as many people as possible (hello weird footpath through some overgrown woods).

In terms of 2020 specifically, I was a "valley" runner. If you looked at my monthly mileage, it was consistent between January and March and then dropped considerably in April through June as I lost motivation given the state of everything and then it slowly rose again to the runner I used to be, making my 2020 monthly totals like a valley

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🤪🤪😜 this was hilarious definitely the virtual 🏃‍♀️ and wake up to avoid crowd 🏃‍♀️

Not sure if I'm one of theese; but I might be a stereotype you might have forgotten. The Goldilocks runner. The one that doesnt run if it's: Too cold. Too hot. Too early. Too late. Too windy. Raining. And yes; I have noticed that I look at other runners shoes and sometimes think they should buy a new shoe...

Definately "Running in early morning to avoid crowds" runner! Started running in 2020 and now can't stop!

Yea...im the judgemental type 😂😂 and if someone passes me...i make it my sole duty to leave them in my dust😂

Early morning. Not necessarily to beat the crowds though. My work it pretty flexible, so I try to start at 6AM so that I can finish early. This means waking up at 4AM most days.

Damn you private detective! 😂 🏃🏻‍♂️ 🏃🏻‍♂️

I feel either so known or personally attacked by the rule breaker. I’ll think about which on my third run.

I'm definitely in the get up early to beat the crowds camp. I'm a morning person, though, so I'm still getting up at the same time as I was two years ago, it's just that there's the added benefit of almost empty streets before dawn these days.

HAHA I am deffo an early morning runner, not quite as bad as you make out ..but I do like quiet roads

We've all been guilty of all of these at one point or another. If I had to pinpoint myself, im the "Rekindled Runner". Summer 2019 is when we suffered a major blow to the family in the form of my FIL dying. I got back to running a couple weeks after his burial, but I just didn't feel the same. The something snapped and I was back to the old feelings

Double run Rick looks scary 😧

Definitely a rekindled, early morning runner. 5:00 a.m. most days, earliest was 3:30 a.m. icy weather has made me an evening runner, but I do prefer mornings. Looking forward to running in daylight again.

Definitely guilty of being the new runner (after properly completing couch to 5K) and talking about running too much; as well as doing the Great North Run 40 as well as running a kilometre around my back garden. Love the channel, though Anna do you feel personally attacked with these?! Blink once and we can provide a safe place! 🥸

The streaking runner. Not the 'Frank The Tank' streak. But the daily runner. Day #382 for me today.

I hate that all races start at 8am. I wish start times were 10am. I would be a lot more pleasant.

Hi can you please post some home workouts as it is lockdown again, you only posted 2 episodes and I would love to see them back. Thanks!

haha-I absolutely do get up at 4am to run and then fall back to sleep for another hour before the kids get up.

When I get frustrated I just went out for run at the track.

I'm an avoid people runner, but at the other extreme. Rarely before 20:00 in the evening. With all pubs closed, even fridays and saturdays are no problem ;-)

I’ve used Endomondo for years on and off, but the app has retired. Would you ever consider talking/reviewing different types of running apps in a video? Great vid btw!

I turned virtual runner, at least you have a medal to show off, lol.

I don't like going running first thing in the morning, i need to have coffee and breakfast before i go running

The two a day runner got me! 😂🤣 also I would run into something if I videoed while running. 😅

I'm a newbie! I'm loving my new hobby, so much that I've signed up for a half marathon (which I might regret ha ha) with my friend. There's also the fair weather runner! Who wont go out if its spitting incase they get wet or get mud on their trainers! Wont go out in the cold incase of frost bite, and even if its too hot incase they get sun stroke (inspired by my aforementioned friend).

For 6 months of 2020 I was the "work from home" runner

Yeah I'm the noobie!!! And yep it's spot on !!! Every run i do feel so energized . I never ran on thread mills tho I just do fitness like 100 pushups squats and situps ect every day. No i also run. Feels great