Marathon

The hard streets of New York City’s five boroughs are no place for marathon world records, let alone an attempt at a…

The first three quarters or so of this weekend’s IAAF World Half Marathon Championships in Valencia, Spain, were…

Fans who attended the Košice Peace Marathon in Slovakia last weekend got to see Kenyan Reuben Kiprop Kerio take home…

Nike’s Breaking2 campaign was unsuccessful.

Nike’s Breaking2 project—an attempt to lower the marathon world record by almost three minutes, to under two…

In the hours after today’s London Marathon, people have been declaring this beautiful moment in which a runner…

Runner—and food and lifestyle blogger—Jane Seo had her second-place finish in the Fort Lauderdale A1A Half Marathon…

Ghirmay Ghebreslassie won the NYC Marathon in 2:07:51, but what received almost as much attention as his dominance…

Dominic Ondoro is pretty tall for a Kenyan runner. Maybe 5'11", with shanks like a deer. He broke away from his…

Abdi Abdirahman said he is “way more relaxed” at 39 than he was when he was younger, causing me to experience a…

As he crossed the finish line to win the silver medal in the Olympic marathon, Feyisa Lilesa crossed his forearms…

Before today’s running of the men’s marathon, U.S. runner Galen Rupp had only tackled 26.2 miles once—at the U.S.…

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The men’s marathon traditionally closes each Olympiad, and here’s a spectator riding alongside the leaders who…

Notice anything strange about Letsrun’s listing of the world-leading performances from last weekend?

Sometimes I like technology, in this case because YouTube is going to be invaluable in explaining how Kenya’s Eliud…

I couldn’t get worked up about Monday’s Boston Marathon. After all, any American who might have been on TV ran the…

A day before Sunday’s Los Angeles Marathon, USATF held the Trials for the U.S. Olympic marathon team, with 105 male…

I had just dragged ass into the JW Marriott in downtown Los Angeles—race headquarters for the Olympic Marathon…

Of the 259 women and 217 men who qualified for the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials, only about 10 in each field have an…