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Run News for December 5, 2024
The Rundown
December 5th, 2024
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Takeaways from Strava’s annual report
Run clubs are growing: Strava’s data shows a 59% increase in running club participation in 2024.
Exercise is a powerful aphrodisiac: 1 in 5 Gen Z respondents reported going on a date with someone they met through exercise and reported being 4x more likely to want to meet a romantic partner through working out than at a bar.
Burnout is out. Balance is in: People are beginning to favor balance over burnout. Pushing to extremes at all costs was replaced by prioritizing mental health and recovery.
Rise in shorter workouts: Over 20% of all ‘workouts’ were less than 20 minutes.
Recovery became a priority: Runners training for marathons added more rest and active recovery days to the schedule.
Athletes like to socialize: Large group activities increased by 13% and had more downtime than solo activities due to taking time for coffee and conversation mid-workout.
Top shoe: Nike Pegasus.
Top wearable: Apple Watch. The Garmin Forerunner was popular for longer distances.
Color trends: The color blue was predicted to replace black in 2025.
Move or die
The single best predictor of our longevity is how much and how vigorously we move. A recent study compared the predictive power of 15 longevity markers and determined our physical activity levels as the best predictor, followed by age, mobility problems, self-assessed health, diabetes, and smoking.
It’s obvious that exercise is good for us, but we may underestimate just how beneficial it is. Historically, it’s been hard to quantify the impact of our movements due to the difficulties in understanding just how much someone moves every day. That is changing as more people wear fitness trackers like Apple Watches, Fitbits, and Whoop bands.
While wearables make tracking movement easier, which helps us to understand that moving is truly insanely beneficial, they also provide a ton of analytics, which can distract us from focusing on the 1 big thing that really works to help us live longer - move.
When in doubt, simply open the door, step outside and get moving.
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Pilates equipment likely to become next addition to home gyms
Home gyms could soon include Pilates equipment. With Pilates classes seeing increased attendance (ClassPass shared that Pilates reservations grew 92% in 2023 making it the platform’s most popular workout) and increasingly selling out, many Pilates fans are considering purchasing Pilates equipment for their home gym.
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Forbes 30 Under 30 Sports: Track athletes account for 13% of list
4 track and field athletes were included in Forbes annual 30 Under 30 Sports List, which was released earlier this week.
Gabby Thomas: Gabby won gold in the 200 meters, the 4x100 events and the 4x400 in Paris, becoming the first American track athlete in 12 years to win 3 golds in the same Olympics. She recently helped to launch 2024's Athlos Invitational, a women's-only track meet that offered all event winners a $60,000 cash prize. (Gabby’s Instagram)
Mondo Duplantis: Widely considered the greatest pole vaulter of all time, Mondo has broken the world record 10 times and claimed gold at the past two Summer Olympics. A Louisiana native, Mondo represents his mother's native Sweden in international competition. (Mondo’s Instagram)
Tara Davis-Woodhall and Hunter Woodhall: Tara, a long jumper who won 2024 Olympic gold in Paris and Hunter, a Paralympic 400-meter champion are an influential couple. They run the Tara and Hunter YouTube channel, which has more than 900,000 subscribers and combine to have over 7 million followers across their social platforms. (Tara’s Instagram and Hunter’s Instagram)
What does resilience mean?
Trail runner Sabrina Little defined what resilience means to her in a recent essay.
Resilience is the virtue of recovery. Rather than a singular trait or skill, resilience is an emergent property that follows a combination of internal and external factors. It is a virtue that we never really want to develop because we only need it when things have gone wrong. Nevertheless, resilience is an asset in sports and life, which bring difficult times.
Resilience helps us navigate adversity so we can productively move forward from setbacks, adversities and scars. Resilience depends on the company that we keep and how well we are encouraged by our community. It depends on the actions that we take toward recovery and having deeply rooted hopes for the future.
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