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4.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 788 upvotes, which works out to 0 per 1,000 members.

0peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.3Mmembers
788best post
415most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

88% 12%
Text 88% Question 12%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Daily Thread 134 Weekly Thread 112 Discussion 26 Training 15 Gear 6 Nutrition 3 Safety 2 Article 1 Race Report 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

What's everyone's take on the run club phenomenon?

↑ 788 💬 365 question 2026

Any Runners Here That Lift Regularly Too?

↑ 552 💬 313 question 2026

Is 2026 the greatest year of running we’ve ever seen?

↑ 302 💬 94 question 2026

Insatiable appetite since I started running?

↑ 270 💬 133 question 2026

What running myth did you believe until experience proved it wrong?

↑ 251 💬 415 question 2026

What’s the worst nutrition advice you’ve ever received? (From a non-runner)

↑ 226 💬 398 question 2026

How much does running in the heat actually set your fitness back?

↑ 179 💬 195 question 2026

Long Run Recovery

↑ 132 💬 87 text 2026

Race report - Grandma's Double Marathon

↑ 115 💬 14 text 2026

When you first started running, what did you struggle with the most?

↑ 106 💬 207 question 2026

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/running, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.