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I mean, you can, but it takes a lot of running to expend the calories taken in with a pretty typical American diet, especially when you account for the increase in appetite exercise typically brings.
But it is possible. If you can burn 2000 calories on a single run, that's a lot of room to maneuver to fit your macros while eating a significant amount of junk food.
you'd have to run over 3 hours to burn 2000 calories.
a 20m run usually burns like 200-300.
Depends on weight and speed, of course. According to the standard calculators floating around, a 200 lb (91 kg) person running a 10k in an hour is burning about 960 calories per hour. And that's a casual/comfortable pace for runners.
People aren't gonna be able to get off the couch and suddenly be able to burn 1000 calories per hour, but that's probably a pace within reach for most people within a few months of training.
There are easier ways to control weight, but for people who enjoy running, those calories give a lot of flexibility in how to eat.