"Step One: Lay The Bait
Sit next to the identified runner at lunch. Repeat for two weeks. Finally, pay your friend to ask you how you’re running is going. Answer with vague statements.
Adorable runner will be compelled to continue running conversation: “What are you training for? … A marathon! Wonderful.” Conveniently forget to add that you haven’t run since high school, that your friends made you do it, that you have no idea if you’ll be able to complete four weeks, never mind four months, of training."
Sit next to the identified runner at lunch. Repeat for two weeks. Finally, pay your friend to ask you how you’re running is going. Answer with vague statements.
Adorable runner will be compelled to continue running conversation: “What are you training for? … A marathon! Wonderful.” Conveniently forget to add that you haven’t run since high school, that your friends made you do it, that you have no idea if you’ll be able to complete four weeks, never mind four months, of training."
