Running mistakes I still make, even as a badass runner!

Alexei Sorokin
3 min readDec 28, 2021

I consider myself a badass runner these days! I’m a 60–70 miles a week runner, a sub-three hour marathon runner, a sub 5.30 min/mile runner! My running has improved dramatically in the last year and a half and I continue to improve.

But I still make quite a lot of mistakes. For example,

  • I run when I’m sick. It doesn’t happen often, but it happened a few times. Of course, if I have a fever, I wouldn’t run — it’s impossible. But I’ve run with heavy colds and flu-like symptoms. Actually, I’ve been sick for the…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/