With 50 years of covers in the Runner’s World archives, and the benefit of hindsight, it’s clear that not every story in the magazine has been spectacular. Some have been embarrassing—in a “what were we thinking” kind of way. In fact, it’s hard to believe some stories that made it into our pages were even real.
With that in mind, we’ve put together a little quiz. Below are snippets of 17 different covers with cover lines that we’ve circled. Some are real, from actual stories we ran. Others we made up and photoshopped in. Can you tell the difference? Take the quiz below, and see how many you can get right.
Kit has been a health, fitness, and running journalist for the past five years. His work has taken him across the country, from Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, to cover the 2016 Olympic Trials to the top of Mt. Katahdin in Maine to cover Scott Jurek’s record-breaking Appalachian Trail thru-hike in 2015.
