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A feel good place for all things running related. A good vibes place where anything about running can be posted without fear of being told "It doesn't add to the community". - If you're a runner. - Have something to say that's important/funny/interesting to you. Then it's probably important to the rest of the community too. So fellow lovers of sore feet and legs... come aboard the running train. *Choo Choo* Founded 2012 · 113.8K members

114.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.8K upvotes, which works out to 138 per 1,000 members.

138peak upvotes per 1,000 members
114.3Kmembers
15.8Kbest post
683most comments
704posts 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.

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Image 30% Text 21% Link 19% Gallery 14% Question 14% Video 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Sedentary a year ago to 5K yesterday! :)

↑ 15.8K 💬 683 gallery 2026

Feeling proud. Me at 39 vs me at 41.

↑ 6.5K 💬 201 image 2026

I live in a rural Midwest town. Here’s what my runs look like

↑ 5.1K 💬 443 gallery 2026

Nothing to humble you like almost losing to a kid in a tutu and fairy wings💀

↑ 4.8K 💬 390 image 2026

Ran my first 5K! 👟🏁🏅

↑ 4.7K 💬 80 gallery 2025

1 Year Progress - Sub 20 5K!

↑ 4.5K 💬 326 image 2025

First race ever (13.1) this weekend

↑ 4.5K 💬 75 image 2026

I ran a half marathon every day in October

↑ 3.9K 💬 290 gallery 2025

Adidas right now

↑ 3.5K 💬 122 image 2026

Half marathon PR of 1:38 after kids and weight loss

↑ 3.1K 💬 203 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/runninglifestyle, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/runninglifestyle?
r/runninglifestyle ("A feel good place for all things running related") describes itself this way: A good vibes place where anything about running can be posted without fear of being told "It doesn't add to the community". - If you're a runner. - Have something to say that's important/funny/interesting to you. Then it's probably important to the rest of the community too. So fellow lovers of sore feet and legs... come aboard the running train. *Choo Choo*. It was founded in 2012 and has 113.8K members.
How many members does r/runninglifestyle have?
r/runninglifestyle has about 114.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 704 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.8K upvotes, which is 138 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/runninglifestyle?
"Sedentary a year ago to 5K yesterday! :)" reached 15.8K upvotes and 683 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/runninglifestyle.
What subreddits are similar to r/runninglifestyle?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/runninglifestyle?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are image posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/runninglifestyle?
Across 704 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 00:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 19:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/runninglifestyle?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/runninglifestyle has 1.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 602 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/runninglifestyle, 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.