I am dropping my subscription to this magazine and going with Running Times. I read this month's "The Special Motivational Issue" and I read it from beginning to end, and I was not motivated one whit, like, at any moment.
Unless your motivation comes from reading shoe ads, columns repeating the same old tired run training cliches, the required articles on eating pine nuts and plenty of veggies, and there's always one boring, non-probing pub job for an American runner, a piece on the effects of coffee or tea, and then of course pages and pages of ads for marathons around the country.
Plus the shoe reviews. I think its impossible for any running or triathlete magazine to go for 3 months without a shoe review. It must be written into the Running and Triathlon Magazine Publishers Creedo: "We Must Do Shoe Reviews Constantly!" No big deal once or twice a year, but every issue or every other issue, it looks like you are basically a shoe retailer.
And it gets even worse. You don't think it could get worse from them but it can. What some of these magazines are doing now and have been doing is changing the front cover photos and formatting of the whole front cover to FOOL YOU about which issue it is you are quickly grabbing; hopefully, from their perspective, you'll stupidly might pick up the same issue, and not know it at a bookstore. Thing is, its the same issue, you just didn't pay attention to the different fonts and type and layout, different picture on the front. It looks like a completely different magazine for that month, but its the same freaking one.
They have conned you into buying the same crap they repeat over and over ONE MORE TIME because of the cover fake out.
Unless your motivation comes from reading shoe ads, columns repeating the same old tired run training cliches, the required articles on eating pine nuts and plenty of veggies, and there's always one boring, non-probing pub job for an American runner, a piece on the effects of coffee or tea, and then of course pages and pages of ads for marathons around the country.
Plus the shoe reviews. I think its impossible for any running or triathlete magazine to go for 3 months without a shoe review. It must be written into the Running and Triathlon Magazine Publishers Creedo: "We Must Do Shoe Reviews Constantly!" No big deal once or twice a year, but every issue or every other issue, it looks like you are basically a shoe retailer.
And it gets even worse. You don't think it could get worse from them but it can. What some of these magazines are doing now and have been doing is changing the front cover photos and formatting of the whole front cover to FOOL YOU about which issue it is you are quickly grabbing; hopefully, from their perspective, you'll stupidly might pick up the same issue, and not know it at a bookstore. Thing is, its the same issue, you just didn't pay attention to the different fonts and type and layout, different picture on the front. It looks like a completely different magazine for that month, but its the same freaking one.
They have conned you into buying the same crap they repeat over and over ONE MORE TIME because of the cover fake out.