As South Africans prepare for the spectacular Comrades Marathon, often forgotten is that until 1975 Black people were not allowed to participate. But a powerful and prefigurative alternative was ...

The book is structured around Prefontaine’s biggest races, which Mr. O’Meara skillfully wrings for all their drama. And he has excellent material in Prefontaine: The runner’s mane of long ...

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and won the Boston ...

A recent scientific study concluded a woman can run one mile in under 4 minutes. In the coming days, Faith Kipyegon will test ...

But perhaps no name carries the power and poignancy of Steve Prefontaine, the gritty, charismatic distance runner from Oregon ... But scrutiny of his life, in books and film, highlights how ...

With the advent of televised sports—and, in recent decades, faster, more modern ways of documentation—sports documentaries have proliferated as a popular genre. This Netflix series, a Covid-era ...

Scottish distance runner Lachie Stewart has died aged 81. Stewart won 10,000m gold for Scotland at the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh and represented Great Britain at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The book “How Long Will I Cry? Voices of Youth Violence” is a collaborative project by Miles Harvey, his students at DePaul University, Big Shoulders Books, and many others. The project serves ...

Runner’s World editors Theo Kahler and ... Athletes compete in “groups”—short sprints, long hurdles, short distance, etc.—and race two events. They earn points for their finishing ...

These principles are perfectly demonstrated by Ethiopian former long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie: Just keep relaxed, and allow the knees and ankles to flex normally. If you find your ...

“Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass ... “I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some f***in’ book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are.

As his light hair bounced with every step he took, it was impossible to not see the influence of runners from decades past on the high school distance ... was the grittiest runner I’ve ever ...