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Why Ultrarunning Is The Funniest Sport In The World
You know all that crap about learning more from losses than victories? From times when the train went off the rails rather than smartly pulling into the station? Whether that has a shred of validity or not, disasters make for great reading, so instead of talking with the medal-chested smiling win...
Little Boy Eats It While Trying To Run With Commonwealth Games Marathon
The Commonwealth Games are underway in Scotland, as representatives from all the territories of the Queen's realm battle it out in athletic competitions both Olympic and non-Olympic. ...
You’re Probably Starting Your Ultramarathon Way Too Fast
It's a well-accepted approach in sports that the fastest way to a finish line is with negative splits—i.e. to get faster as the race progresses. In the ultrarunning community, this approach more resembles a sacred mantra than a mere guideline....
Runner Struck In The Head By Lightning, Finishes Third
Over the weekend the Hardrock 100 ultramarathon wound its way through the mountains around Silverton, Colo. The men's winner set a course record. But more impressive or stupid or mind-boggling was that the third-place finisher, Adam Campbell of Canada, was struck by lightning. In the head. And then ...
Bill Hillmann: I Got Gored By A Fucking Bull
On Wednesday, Bill Hillmann was gored while running with the bulls in Pamplona. A journalist, novelist, and former boxer, Bill and I have known each other since our time at Columbia College Chicago, where even then he was recognized for his frontline reportage, some of which has since appeared aro...
How A Race's Pursuit Of World Records Screwed Women Out Of Prize Money
This Saturday, the fastest men in the world will assemble in Kingsport, Tenn., to compete for a $15,008 payday. But it's only the men—the fastest women in the world don't compete. The fastest women in the world don't even show up, because at the Crazy 8s race, it pays to be a man, but there is no ...
Mugger Unsurprisingly Slow When Chased By Runners
The amazing part of this story is not that a mugger was run down by a group of runners, but that a mugger was up and at 'em by 6 a.m. But he was no match for a group that was already shuffling at 5....
Running 100 Miles Is Easier Now: A Talk With The Father of Ultra Trailrunning
Gordy Ainsleigh, with bib number 0, will be shuffling around with 376 other runners at 5 a.m. Saturday. As the sun lights up the rugged peaks that tower over Squaw Valley, they'll be checking their watches, shaking out their legs, trying not to think about the 100.2 miles of soul-grinding Sierra Nev...
Milwaukee Marathon Accused Of Avoiding Black Neighborhoods
Chris Ponteri, the owner of a small Wisconsin race management company, is—or at least was—interested in creating a spring marathon in Milwaukee next April. His proposed route meanders along the lake, through the city, and among some of its parks....
The Fastest Vegan In The World
Just over a year ago, Tony Jordanek stopped eating meat, cold Tofurkey. He'd been studying nutrition for months in a desire to fuel his athletic performance, and his conviction on meatless diets had reached a climax. So on the morning of a track meet in California, he switched....
St. Gregory's University President Defends Athletic Director
SGU president D. Gregory Main has released a statement on the firing of cross country and track and field coach Matt Aguero. Unsurprisingly, Main claims it's Aguero who "unethically violated" Athletic Director Dr. Jeff Potter's right to be a babbling idiot with insensitive and antiquated views on th...
Running Coach Fired For Running Boston Marathon
On Wednesday, April 23, Matt Aguero was terminated as the head track and cross country coach of St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Okla. Unless you keep abreast of internal developments within NAIA sports, you probably missed the news. But hear me out now, because what happened to Aguero will be a...
Ultramarathon Interrupted By Out Of Control Car
South Africa's Comrades Marathon is the granddaddy of ultramarathons, having been held first in 1921 and nearly every year since inviting runners to traverse the 56 miles between Durban and Pietermaritzburg. This year runners were also invited to avoid spectators fleeing an out-of-control automobile...
Attention, Ladies: America's Best Miler May Be Single
Matt Centrowitz is arguably the U.S.'s best miler. Fourth at the 2012 Olympics, he was a world championships bronze medalist in 2011 and runner-up in 2013. He's 24, has a crazyass coach, and he's finally heathy after a mysterious virus during the winter season. ...
British Sprinter: "Your Mom Will Have Lactic In Her Anus"
Major sports stars know to not feed the trolls. England's Richard Kilty, the 2014 World Indoor 60-meter gold medalist, is still coming to grips with his emerging celebrity, most notably by engaging with Twitter accounts that ask rhetorical questions....
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Counterpoint: I Will Run Wherever The Hell I Want To Run
Before dawn some five or six years ago, I shut the door to my Orlando-area non-Disney golf resort vacation destination villa, and set off on my usual Sunday long run. Having no intention of using the resort's three-quarter mile "fitness trail", I headed for the front gate, and began a search for a ...
Beer Mile World Record Smashed By Canuck
James Nielsen, a two-time NCAA 5,000-meters champion and Canadian, smashed the beer mile world record over the weekend with a time of four minutes, 57 seconds. He is 34....
Bib Forgers Are Dumb Twentysomethings Raising Money For Charity
Bastards with hearts of gold are still bastards, and the perpetrators of Bibgate 2014, if not innocent, are at least trying to justify themselves out of a bad situation....
Do You Know These Runners? Because They're Probably Bastards.
Everyone wanted to be in the Boston Marathon this year, and the race actually expanded its field by more than a third, to 36,000, to accommodate everybody. But it still sold out, and then there's that pesky detail of having to pay. So four runners decided they'd find alternative means of entry, clai...