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- Almgren says he thinks he can run 2:01 eventually
The world half marathon champion has not finished a marathon yet, and he is already talking about the second-fastest time in history.
- Mantz names his New York rivals after two stress fractures
The American record holder says he plans to still be in the lead pack with 2 miles to go on Sunday.
- Holmer flags WHOOP data where sleep regularity moved the numbers
Resting heart rate fell and HRV rose across 38,838 app users, and sleep duration did not change at all.
- Almgren debuts at NYC as a favorite over Benson Kipruto
The World Half champion has never raced 26.2, and LetsRun still ranks him near the top of a field with no sub-2:02 runners.
- Holmer flags study putting physical peak near age 36
Losses run roughly 1% a year after the peak and more than 2% a year by 63, but activity changed the slope, not the timing.
- Intervals blunted strength gains 40%, not muscle growth
Brady Holmer says the cost of running hard alongside lifting shows up in performance, not in fiber size.
- Adidas extends Adios Pro 5 outsole after wear complaints
A rep calls it cosmetic color wear affecting a small number of runners, and one r/RunningShoeGeeks poster is not buying that framing.
- Holmer says 2 minute intervals beat 30 second sprints
The physiology writer says time spent near your ceiling is what drives the adaptation, and short sprints never get there.
- Geerts and Steyaert hit 124 laps for backyard world record
Their third record together, and they passed Phil Gore's old mark of 119 yards at the 500-mile point.
- iRunFar review puts Hoka Rocket X Trail between road and trail
The review calls the hybrid category increasingly popular, and says the shoe fits it.
- Holmer finds a carb ceiling, 120 and 150 grams look the same
Zach Bitter asks which experts are actually writing fueling guidelines in the 150 grams an hour range.
- Jepchirchir provisionally suspended after EPO finding
The sample was collected out of competition in Kenya before the Sydney Marathon, the Athletics Integrity Unit says.
- Valencia half produced three men's marks that counted as no record
Steven Mills tallied the odd results list behind Sheila Chepkirui's 63:51 win and Yaseen Abdalla's 59:10 debut.
- Dorfel debuts in 2:20:46 at Frankfurt
Germany's Blanka Dorfel negative split her first marathon, closing in 1:10:17.
- Henderson walks 3:14:52 marathon race walk world record
Australia's Henderson lowers the women's mark and Japan's Kawano puts the first men's record on the board.
- Jepchirchir's agent says testers waited two hours at her door
The new detail in the EPO case is how the sample got collected in the first place.
- Magness and Bitter push back on "jogging wrecks your knees"
A viral post told people to walk and sprint and skip everything in between. Two well known names in running answered it the same day.
- Geerts and Steyaert's backyard record is 516.7 miles
The Belgian pair's 124 laps add up to 831.5 km, and it is the third time they have set the mark.
- Tokyo champion Ruti Aga banned six years for forged prescription
Two years for the drug, four more for the document she handed the investigators.
- Three nations left at Big's Backyard after Pierlot stops at 101
Keith Dunn says Christophe Baud will win for France if he finishes yard 101.
- Holmer says glycogen does not explain the carb benefit
Three studies say the standard explanation for why high carb fueling works keeps coming up short.
- LA28 Olympic marathon cut to 70 spots per gender
The quota list closes six days before the US Olympic Marathon Trials in St. Louis.
- Sub-2:04 broken 23 times in 2026, adidas in 15 of them
One shoe brand accounts for roughly two thirds of the fastest marathons run this year.
- Reviewers back Slowcush and Atmosfar, argue with prices
kofuzi says the ASICS Slowcush should cost $180, Believe in the Run gives the Craft Atmosfar straight A grades, and The Run Testers call the Suunto Race 3S overpriced.