Marathon racing
Every Running Weekly story on marathon racing, newest first. 37 stories since September 2026.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jepchirchir provisionally suspended after EPO finding
The sample was collected out of competition in Kenya before the Sydney Marathon, the Athletics Integrity Unit says.
- Dorfel debuts in 2:20:46 at Frankfurt
Germany's Blanka Dorfel negative split her first marathon, closing in 1:10:17.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Gault. Hicks and Mauri both real American record threats
A year ago one of them had never run a marathon and the other was unknown.
- Kosgei returns to Chicago, Rupp chases the US masters record
Sunday's race has a stacked international field and the deepest American lineup in years.
- Mauri calls his Chicago block a volume experiment
The treadmill clips went viral, but Mauri is framing the whole buildup as data collection.
- How Assefa ran 2:11:04 on a ruptured Achilles
Steve Magness explains the pain science, Brady Holmer says the shoes did part of the tendon's job.
- Mauri trains on Planet Fitness treadmills, races Chicago
The 2:05 debutant from Toledo heads to a world major off a block almost nobody in American distance running would recognise.
- Lipschitz wins Kosice Marathon in 2:07:21
Three men finished inside 2:08:05 in Slovakia, and both winners ran personal bests.
- Mauri trains on gym treadmills capped below his marathon pace
The 2:05 debutant races Chicago next week off a gym membership and 36 miles at 4:56 pace.
- Holmer ranks super shoes first, bicarb a distant fourth
A four-item list of what actually makes a marathon faster, with supplements dropped below an ellipsis.
- Boston 2027 cutoff is 5 minutes 17 seconds under the BQ
A record 25,630 runners are in for April 19, 2027, and for the first time 1,000 of the runners who missed get a lottery shot.
- Clayton Young to race Chicago on a torn hamstring
One doctor told him to take four weeks off and skip the race. He is running anyway.
- Berlin produces five new US Olympic Trials qualifiers
Brendan Martin, Jacqueline Gaughan, Allie Kieffer, Katja Goldring and Gabriella Smith punched tickets to St. Louis.
- Assefa ran Berlin's last 2K on a fully torn Achilles
Her manager says the tendon was completely gone over the closing two kilometers of a 2:11:04 win.
- Berlin hypes Assefa at the world record, she says she wants a PR
World Athletics says Assefa is ready to challenge the mark. Assefa is talking about something smaller.
- Pasadyn scratches from Chicago Marathon after being hit by a car
David Monti says the 2:35:17 marathoner was struck by a car while running and seriously injured.
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