Terrell Johnson is Substack 'Running Royalty'.
With more than 39,000 subscribers, his The Half Marathoner newsletter is hugely popular, combining personal stories with those of runners from around the world, training plans, lists of often exotic-sounding races, and intimate community conversations about everything running related.
His own running story started when he was in his mid-20s. At that time, he took on a variety of distances including several marathons. But it was when, in his early 30s, he discovered a love for half-marathons that Terrell really became immersed in the sport.
It may seem strange in today's climate, where races scream at you from every corner of the internet, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Terrell struggled to find many half-marathons to run. There was certainly no comprehensive guides telling people how to find them.
If you can't find it, make it - and that's exactly what Terrell did, building his own website. The Half Marathon Guide would become the world’s leading resource for runners looking to run the 13.1-mile distance.
The Half-Marathoner followed a few years later and has created a strong community, with Terrell exploring how running can help people find meaning and spur them on to achieve things they barely thought possible.
Running Tales spoke to Terrell about his love of the half-marathon, what makes running so special, and the exciting races he would love to take on...
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