Stories, page 2
- Rupp's 2:06:55 at 40 becomes a fifth Olympics bid
Jonathan Gault says the 40 year old is finally able to trust his body again, and he is pointing at another Olympic team.
- Bitter asks who actually recommends 150g of carbs an hour
Brady Holmer's durability thread turned into an argument about where the top end of fueling guidance came from in the first place.
- Jeruto negative splits Toronto, Kiptoo runs 2:08:08
Her second half was 31 seconds quicker than her first, and the men's race was still six runners inside one second at 35K.
- Puppi misses Templiers record by one second in Millau
Martyna Mlynarczyk led the women's race from the gun and took 66 seconds off the course record.
- Severe weather stops Spain at Big's Backyard, 52 nations left
Spain's team was pulled on yard 25, and the field has thinned from 67 nations to 52.
- Big's Backyard Ultra world team championship is underway
Keith Dunn is posting live results for the US team, and says there is no rush to start watching.
- Holmer says 100g of carbs an hour rewrites durability
The fat burning advantage researchers found in unfueled riders vanished once intake hit 100 grams an hour, Holmer says.
- Gapes breaks 19 at Pre-Nats, BYU beats NC State
The top two women's teams in the country split the day on the course that hosts NCAAs next month.
- Kodiak 100 finisher runs 22:13:57, banks a UTMB 2027 spot
The race report breaks down 13 weeks of training, three weeks at 7000 feet and two gels an hour.
- Sifan Hassan and Fiona O'Keeffe out of New York
Illness for Hassan, a proximal hamstring repair for O'Keeffe, and the women's field loses two of its biggest names before race day.
- Hurley on her 2:20:47 debut, nobody gets there alone
The American debut record holder sat down with CITIUS MAG and spent much of it crediting other people.
- Fiona O'Keeffe has hamstring surgery after tear retracts
The 2:22:49 American course record holder in New York had been announced in the 2026 elite field.
- Study says non-elite marathoners fuel at 21.7g of carbs an hour
The race-day gap is not physiology, it is how little actually gets swallowed.
- Holmer, brain fog after a marathon shows up in the data
Two studies from one research group found myelin dips after 26.2 and comes back in about a month.
- Monti reissues a corrected US all-time list from Chicago
The American results in Chicago ran deep enough that the record-keeping is still catching up.
- Young runs 2:05:23 in Chicago on a torn hamstring
Vinny Mauri was on American record pace through 20 miles before his hamstrings seized and he stopped to stretch.
- Hurley debuts in 2:20:47, fastest ever by an American
Seventh overall and top American in her first race at the distance, and already sixth on the US all-time list.
- Kipchoge, 41, wins Melbourne in a course record 2:09:10
His first marathon victory in three years, and the fastest time ever run on the Melbourne course.
- The 10 grams of carbs an hour claim falls apart
A tiny carb dose looked good for about a day, then the man who posted it conceded the point.
- Trey Lara dies after collapsing at the Portland Marathon
A post in r/Marathon_Training describes a healthy 24 year old who went down near mile 20, two miles after seeing his wife.
- Hicks plans 62-minute half, Cullen calls his shot at 2:06
Two very different American gambles ahead of Sunday in Chicago, one off 130-mile weeks, one off DoorDash shifts.
- Kosgei and Kiplimo take 25 surprise doping tests a year
The two Chicago headliners signed up for roughly four times the testing a normal marathon pool athlete gets, with Nike and their agency paying the bill.
- Young says hamstring hasn't hurt in practice ahead of Chicago
The American record is still the plan Sunday, and Charles Hicks says he moved his build to Park City.
- Lost tape shows Rojo pacing Ndereba to her 2:18:47 record
LetsRun co-founder Robert Johnson watched the footage for the first time and found two Olympic champions critiquing his form on live TV.