As I’ve blogged many times, MySQLers frequently share off-work interests and running is one of them. I’ve also blogged about social media, which usually use MySQL under the hood. Now I’ve combined the two (running and social media) with the insight that running is a religion: I’m propagating Runnism, the Religion of Running.

It started as a thought experiment that I’m now pursuing in what in MySQL AB lingo used to be called my “copious free time” (of which there never was much). I’ve started Twitter accounts for Runnism, one for each language in which I tweet in. This is in sharp contrast to my @kajarno twitter account, where I happily mix Swedish, German and English — with the end result that certain of my Twitter followers have asked me whether I’ve already got the Twitter error message “maximum number of non-English tweets exceeded”.

I’ve so far published three Runnism blog entries in English:

• Runnism, the Religion of Running — why?
• The Seven Legs of Runnism
• Why a world religion? And in 20 languages?

In German, I’ve published the equivalent three blog entries

• Runnismus, die Religion des Laufens — wieso?
• Die Sieben Beine des Runnismus
• Weltreligion? Wieso unbedingt Weltreligion? Und 20 Sprachen?

plus a fourth one

• Ein großes Dankeschön an die anwachsende Runnisten-Gemeinschaft!

which is my thanks note to the German Twitterati. After a filmed eleven minute presentation last Wednesday to 50 German alpha twitterers, I was the happy recipient of plenty of tweets and even a long blog entry explaining “Runnismus, die neue Weltreligion” (”Runnism, the new world religion”).

Interested? Follow me on Twitter as @Runnism in English, @Runnismus in German and/or @Runnismen in Swedish!

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