LATEST RUNNING AND MARATHON NEWS
November 5, 2025
Strava Has Quickly Become the Most Popular Social Network for Music Fans
As more people shift their focus to health and wellness, music artists are using Strava as a new way to connect with fans. Between sharing their own fitness journeys and creating in-person experiences, the app is helping bring fans closer to artists. Strava reports that the number of new run clubs has...
November 1, 2025
How the CEO of Brooks Running went from teaching high school to leading a billion-dollar fitness brand
Brooks Running CEO Dan Sheridan sits at the helm of a billion-dollar global fitness brand that has over 1,400 employees. His path to the C-suite wasn't conventional, however. Sheridan told Business Insider that he grew up in a household of teachers, and when it came time to choose a career, he decided...
October 29, 2025
New York City Marathon 2025: A Guide to Brand Events for the Week
The 53rd edition of the 42-kilometer New York Marathon starts from the Island and ends in Central Park, Manhattan after passing through Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The 2025 New York City Marathon is almost upon us, but the brand activations have already begun. Many of the major players will go all-out...
October 29, 2025
Digging deep: Marathoners go over a kilometre underground to set world records
A field of 55 runners from 18 countries have just ventured where no marathoners have gone before – 1,120 metres below the Earth’s surface – to complete the World’s Deepest Marathon inside Boliden’s Garpenberg zinc mine in Sweden. And they set two new Guinness World Records in the process in an event...
October 28, 2025
Niagara Falls Marathon disqualifies winners after leading them the wrong way
The 2025 Niagara Falls International Marathon race weekend turned into what one participant called “an absolute nightmare”–and judging by reactions from other runners, they’re not alone in that assessment. On Sunday, the top three runners in both the 10K and half-marathon races unknowingly followed the lead cyclist in the wrong...
October 28, 2025
Running out of ‘cool days’ — how climate change is affecting marathons
Apart from causing wide-ranging adverse repercussions, climate change is also affecting sports by rapidly shrinking the window of "cool days" that allow marathon runners to achieve their best performances, posing an increasing challenge for athletes and organisers of the world's premier long-distance races. THEW NEWS
October 28, 2025
You’ve heard of the Backyard Ultra – now meet the Hourglass
Mad Hatters’ John Yelland, who came up with the concept, basically put a Backyard Ultra in a blender with a beep test and produced something he describes as ‘the world’s first Frontyard Marathon’. Although the thought of running faster as the race progresses is perturbing, there’s a significant positive. RUNNER'S WORLD
October 23, 2025
Banned French sprint champion joins Enhanced Games
After serving two doping bans for as many years, former French sprinter Mouhamadou Fallhas found an event that welcomes him back to the track with open arms. On Thursday, the doping-encouraged Enhanced Games announced that Fall is officially the first French athlete to join the start-up, and will compete in the...
October 23, 2025
Nike’s Robotic Shoe Gets Humans One Step Closer to Cyborg
Project Amplify is Nike’s latest attempt to put some spring in your step with help from a powered mechanism that enhances the natural movement of the human ankle and lower leg. Wired
October 23, 2025
Australian ultrarunner wins Big’s Backyard Ultra after 114 hours of running
After more than 750 kilometres and 114 hours of running, the world record holder in the backyard ultrarunning format, Australia’s Phil Gore, was crowned the winner of the Big’s Backyard Ultra World Championship on Thursday morning. Canadian Running Magazine
