Remember the Colorado runner who killed a mountain lion with his bare hands earlier this month? He spoke to KUNC about…
Colorado Runner Kills Mountain Lion With His Bare Hands After It Attacks Him
Yesterday afternoon, a trail runner was out for a run alone in the Horsetooth Mountain Open Space area outside of Fort…
Ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter Takes On The World's Most Sadistic Endurance Race
Gary Cantrell clanged a bell at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, signaling 70 runners to jog off into the woods on his…
Yuki Kawauchi, The World's Most Famous Amateur Runner, Explains Why He's Finally Going Pro
As soon as they’d had a chance to mop the sweat or rinse the vomit out of their mouth, the top finishers of the Chicago…
Eliud Kipchoge Breaks Marathon World Record By More Than A Minute
There’s a new marathon world record—and it’s quite a bit faster than the old one.
Ultramarathon Leader Kicked Out Of Race For Drinking Illicit Water
The 25th running of the Hardrock 100 ultramarathon took place this weekend, with 114 of the 146 runners who started the…
Ethiopian Distance Runner Pulls Fellow Countryman By His Shorts After Believing He Was Tripped
The end of today’s men’s 5,000-meter race at the IAAF Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland devolved into…
Gwen Jorgensen Wants To Be The Best In The World. Again.
Endurance athletes, triathletes and distance runners, are a humble lot—hardworking, long suffering, and taught to…
A French Teenager Was Detained By ICE For Two Weeks After Accidentally Jogging Over The U.S.-Canada Border
Cedella Roman, a 19-year-old French woman who was visiting her mother in British Columbia last month, was arrested by…
USC Wins National Championship On Wild 4x400 Comeback As Announcers Declare Them Dead
Coming into the 4x400 meter relay at tonight’s NCAA track and field championships, the USC women had to win to clinch a…
College Runner Who Almost Burned To Death Reaches NCAA Final Two Years Later
Probably the easiest sports story to write is one about a meteoric improvement. The Wow This Person Got A Lot Better At…
A Double Amputee Coming Off A Cocaine Suspension Is Suddenly One Of The Best Sprinters In America
Blake Leeper is a double amputee, self-described alcoholic, and coming off a two-year suspension for testing positive…
A Convicted Doper Won $10,000 In A Race Created By A Reality TV Star Who Forgot To Implement Drug Testing
Gabe Grunewald is one of the most inspiring and upsetting stories in sports right now—at just 31 years old, her running…
Mischievous Dong Photobombs Marathon Photo Finish [NSFW]
The 2018 Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon was held Saturday in Champaign, and featured a virtually unheard of finish:…
The Only Point Of Track’s Dumb New Testosterone Rules Is To Make It Illegal To Be Caster Semenya
Track and field’s international governing body announced this morning that women who compete internationally in events…
Boston's Weather Broke Scores Of Elite Runners, But Not Old Man Abdi Abdirahman
Despite miserable weather, 95 percent of of the 27,042 common folk who started Monday’s Boston Marathon eventually…
Q&A: Des Linden Explains How She Won The Boston Marathon
On Monday, Des Linden became the first American woman to win the Boston Marathon in 33 years. For the 34-year-old…
The Weather At The Boston Marathon Overwhelmed The World's Best Distance Runners
The men’s and women’s races at Monday’s Boston Marathon were won by two of the unlikeliest people. Desi Linden was the…
The Boston Marathon Had Two Shocking Winners
You will read, and in fact are reading right now, that Desi Linden and Yuki Kawauchi’s times (2:39:54 and 2:15:58) were…
Shalane Flanagan Takes 13-Second Bathroom Break In The Middle Of The Boston Marathon
Here’s Shalane Flanagan, defending New York City Marathon champion and one of the best American runners of all time,…