Here’s something you may not know about Romania’s #1 Copywriter — AKA Yours Truly — AKA Me 👋

I’ve been running since 2020…

…from the police on the accusation of writing emails so good they might be illegal! 🤣

No but seriously.

Running.

Like this 👇

BUT IF I CAN CONFESS SOMETHING…

…I’ve not been running nearly as much as I used to.

In 2024, I ran 601 miles.

in 2025, I ran 527 miles.

In 2026 so far… I’ve ran 102 miles 😣

I want to run more.

I really do.

But this has been a heck of a learning year.

It’s been my first full year since I fired my agency gig (aka I left my full time VP job to go all in on writing emails for myself). I launched my Skool community (which now makes more money than the average American salary). I launched a monthly newsletter. I doubled down on YouTube. I picked up golf.

In other words…

I’VE BEEN RIDING TWO HORSES WITH ONE ARSE!

But I miss running as much as I used to.

And now feels like the right time to get back to pounding the pavement since I’ve finally got my groove down with Skool, newsletter, YouTube and all that jazz.

So to commemorate my going back into running — I got two books on running.

— This Is About Running, This Is Not About Running by Coach Bennett

— What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

I started reading the Coach Bennett book first (he is the global head of running at Nike) and the first chapter was about “The First Run.”

He said the question he gets asked the most is about the first run.

— how far should I run?

— how long should I run?

— how hard should I run?

HIS WISE ANSWER…

Not very far.

Not very long.

Not very hard.

The whole point of the first run is a next run.

You should finish running today thinking, “I could have gone longer… and further… and harder…”

GREAT!

Because tomorrow, you’ll have an opportunity to run again. Where you can go a bit further.. a bit longer… a bit harder…

SUCH IT IS WITH COPYWRITING.

I feel like lately I’ve been the Coach Bennett of Copy.

Because for whatever reason (maybe you guys are finally sensing the obvious rise of human copywriting in the AI age again)…

… my list has been relentless asking me:

“El Copy Goat, how do I really practice copywriting? How much do I write? For how long? What techniques to learn?”

Yada yada yada.

Thankfully for you (whether beginner or expert), daddy knows just what to do.

In fact, I’ve got an entire YouTube video on Copywriting Exercises That Will Make You Cash 👈

The best one is by far exercise #7…

... it will help you make copywriting so easy that you'll write again tomorrow.

Oh, and while you’re at it — subscribe to my YouTube channel, binge more of my videos, click a link in the description, read more of my emails and buy all my stuff.

=)

Your friend,

Alin “Runs This Email List” Dragu