December’s Valencia Marathon will stage a world-class women’s showdown: Olympic champion and reigning world champion Peres Jepchirchir against course-record holder Amane Beriso. On the men’s side, former winner Sisay Lemma headlines. As one of the sport’s fastest courses—and now a December anchor—Valencia’s field announcement is the clearest early signal...
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon returned to its fastest self, with Jacob Kiplimo surging for the men’s title in 2:02:23—one of the quickest performances in event history—and Ethiopia’s Hawi Feysa winning the women’s race in 2:14:56, a personal-best breakthrough. Switzerland’s Marcel Hug and the United States’ Susannah Scaroni...
In New York, the Athlos meet engineered a different kind of track night: women-only, star-dense, and staged for television pace. Brittany Brown delivered the headline, doubling 100/200 in 10.99 and 21.89—a personal best in the latter—months after surgery. Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson, who nursed injuries through the summer,...
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While the sport’s oxygen went to big-city marathons and late-season track galas, World Athletics spent the week tending to scaffolding. Tickets opened for the 2026 World Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee; the council finalized qualification systems for three 2026 series events (indoor worlds, relays, U20); and the federation confirmed...
This weeks episode is sponsored by The Running Warehouse Ballarat Marathon The Running Warehouse Ballarat Marathon is back in April next year with flat and fast courses … an amazing atmosphere and heaps of fun. Sign up today at ballaratmarathon.com.au before this very popular event sells out. Brad keeps his rebuild indoors. Julian pitches a new type of running club. Brady takes his first week off in a stint on the sidelines. This week's running news is presented by Axil Coffee. London 10k World Mountain and Trail Running Championships Enjoy 20% off your first Axil Coffee order!...
An interesting statistic about Faith Kipyegon (thinking on it, you can drop the ‘interesting’; every statistic about Faith Kipyegon is interesting). But the one that has piqued my interest recently concerns Faith and the 5000 metres. Kipyegon, the best 1500 runner in history, burst into calculations at the 5000 metres...
You may have noticed some talk about the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sydney Olympics this past week or so. The Opening Ceremony of Sydney 2000 was 15 September but the focus of as much, if not more, of the commentary has been a more significant landmark which occurred 10...
Written by Ben Traynor, for Runner’s Tribe The Megablast sits at the sharp end of ASICS’ Blast lineage—the Novablast that lit the fuse, the Superblast that pushed stack height and versatility, and now this: a max-stack, non-plated trainer wrapped around a new slab of FlyteFoam Turbo². ASICS’s ATPU blend is...
And on the last day it rained. Almost from the moment the program for the final day of the world championships got under way the rain started to tumble down. Like all rain, it felleth on the just and the unjust alike. It might be a question, however, as to...
