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What is RUN | Meet Our Staff
We Love to RUN!
Welcome to our page where you can learn all about RUN.
RUN is your home for all things running. RUN is for everyone, and it’s supercharged by the Outside Network.
What Is RUN?
RUN is your home for all disciplines of the sport—roads, trails, track, and even the treadmill. We’re here to obsess over everything about running, including training guidance that fits your experience and pace, expert shoe reviews, science-based fueling and nutrition insights, racing strategies from top coaches and athletes, strength training advice, training programs, and inspirational content from the hottest trends and wide-ranging cultural aspects of the sport. We’re here to share undiscovered stories about the sport and lifestyle of running that move you deeply, or just move you enough to lace up your shoes and get out the door.
While the editors at RUN nerd out over the World Marathon Majors, track and field at the Olympics, and the Western States 100, we also acknowledge that many of us live in multiple spheres. We cheer on Team USA, and we take the trail by the river before work. We run for our health and to improve our fitness. We run to chase our goals, just as we chase our small children and big dogs. We run to keep running even longer, hopefully. We run to see friends, and we run to get just a few minutes to ourselves today, damn it! The bottom line is that we run because we love to run!
Who Is RUN For?
RUN is for you. Yes, you!, We believe that if you have even the smallest bit of interest in putting one foot in front of the next, then RUN is for you.
And let’s face it: If you’re reading this, that’s you. If you’re just starting to run or if you’ve been running for many years, RUN can be a resource for half marathon training information, track workout motivation, inspiration to plan your next trail running race, and more. We’ve got you covered if you’re looking to get started or take your running to the next level.
If you run 200-mile races on the trails, marathons around the world, 5Ks from the couch, or crank the treadmill up to a 15 percent incline at the gym and hike because it’s an excuse to watch that new TV show you’ve been dying to see, we are here to meet you on your running journey, where it takes you.
For runners, we’re your friend that provides that extra nod of encouragement needed to open the front door. From scrambling ridgelines to clicking off 400s on the track, running hut-to-hut through the Alps to running 5K from the pub with friends after work, our team lives, breathes, and runs through the many facets of the sport.
For fans, we cover running with the reverence it deserves and the irreverence it needs. Running for fun is objectively ridiculous and quirky, and we embrace its full spectrum, while also celebrating those pushing the boundaries of human potential.
How can you engage with RUN?
This may come as a bit of a shock, but RUN lives here, on this site, where we post new content on the daily. It’s also on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter/X, and some day soon we will catch up with the times and make it onto TikTok. We’re in your inbox (if you so choose), providing our sharpest insights in our newsletters. And we’re cross the Outside Network with exclusive running TV series, movies, and race live streaming on Outside Watch, and helping you discover new routes and stay on the trail with Gaia GPS.
Why does RUN exist?Â
Despite what gym teachers may have told you, we believe that running is fun. We know it is! (Well, OK, sometimes it sucks!) And we believe the sport deserves world-class coverage that reflects that spirit, and maybe nudges it a bit further down the fun path, too.
Our team is on a quest to bring you smart coverage of the sport, without any of the self-seriousness. We’re here to spread the message that there’s no wrong way to run. And we believe if you want to run faster, stronger, longer, or happier, we provide the tools to empower you to do so. OK, enough blabbing. Grab your shoes and come run with us.
Who is Behind RUN?
Chris Foster, Editorial Director
    
Chris Foster is the editorial director of RUN and editor-in-chief of Triathlete magazine. He was a former Division I miler and steeplechaser at Penn State, where he was a part of the school record-setting distance medley relay, with a mile split of 4:01. He went on to graduate with a degree in journalism and a minor in statistics before spending 10 years as a full-time professional triathlete.
He still runs the steepest trails he can find near his house on the coast of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, his daughter, and his five chickens. He is also the author of The Triathlete Guide to Sprint and Olympic Triathlon Racing, and his favorite piece he’s reported on has nothing do to with sports: “The Island of the Time Before” for Roads & Kingdoms.
Abby Levene, Senior Editor
​​After running Division I at Princeton University, Abby Levene migrated to Boulder, Colorado, to study journalism and run as a grad student at the University of Colorado before competing as a professional triathlete. She won the USAT Draft Legal National Championship in 2016. When she’s not clacking on the keyboard or trying to avoid getting sunburned (otherwise known as tracking down a scoop) at a race, you can find her tripping over rocks on the trails and following Boston sports.
Ali Nolan, Digital Editor
Ali Nolan is the author of Master the Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide for Women, which offers a holistic approach to training for long distances. She is a four-time marathoner and a dozen-time half marathoner who is passionate about fitness and movement at all speeds and in every form. When not running, you’ll find her hiking Utah’s trails with her humungous dog, practicing yoga, spending hours on the tennis court, or recovering on the couch with her two elderly cats.
David Gleisner, Social Media Strategist
David Gleisner is the social media strategist for the RUN team. He grew up running the flatlands of the Chicago area, but currently mixes it up on trails and roads in and around Denver, Colorado. His favorite workout is 800-meter repeats (especially on some crunchy gravel), and his favorite place to run is the Indian Peaks Wilderness.
Jonathan Beverly, Senior Running Gear Editor, Outside Online
Jonathan Beverly, Outside’s senior running gear editor, has been the editor of Running Times, shoe editor and columnist for Runner’s World, and author of Your Best Stride and Run Strong, Stay Hungry. A lifelong runner himself—he ran his first marathon when he was 16—he has coached runners of all levels, from beginners to marathoners, high school to masters competitors. He’s been reviewing shoes for more than two decades and can often be found testing new pairs on the dirt roads around his high plains home, accompanied by his two dogs.