The High Performance Program doubles to 1,200 places for next August. Its qualifying table has been rewritten too, and men aged 18 to 34 now need 2:45:00, eight minutes faster than this year.
Lyles, 29, ended his season with a hamstring strain and is working the Ultimate Championship as its MC. He told reporters Tuesday that the two years before Los Angeles are for chasing American records.
Exercise physiologists and coaches describe endurance performance using three major variables (which you’ve heard about multiple times if you’re a regular reader of this newsletter… so bear with me). The third variable is perhaps most appealing from a performance perspective. Two runners might have the same VO₂ max, but if one can sustain 90% of … Read more
She was 30 at that first race, a half-marathon in San Antonio. Nine years and nine months later she covered 636.482 miles in 144 hours in Hungary, a distance no woman had reached and nobody in the men’s field came within 50 miles of.
Three men entered for Oct. 18 own personal bests under 2:07, and Uganda’s Stephen Kissa has run quicker than the course record itself.
Red Bull sent an ultrarunner and a double Olympic mountain bike champion up the same 7 kilometers of Yr Wyddfa, and Evans was gone inside the last 2 kilometers.
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Eckert covered 636.482 miles (1,024.319k) in 144 hours at Balatonfüred, the first woman past 1,000 kilometers in six days. No man in the field finished within 83 kilometers of her.
Florian Laplanche won the 40th Marathon des Châteaux du Médoc in 2:26:45 and Céline Mérel won the women’s race in 2:54:38, on a course with roughly 20 wine tastings and a prize paid in grands crus.
World Athletics published its final entry lists on Monday. Noah Lyles, Faith Kipyegon, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Lilian Odira are all out, and 13 men in the 1,500m have broken 3:31 this season.
Simpson said genetic testing on her and both her parents found no marker for the disease, and that she was given CPR for more than 20 minutes before she reached hospital.
Neither of last year’s winners is entered, no former men’s champion is on the list, and 14 of the 50 professionals race a world championship in Copenhagen six days later.
Altra’s third Vanish Carbon is the first that can actually race, and it needed a 4 mm heel to get there. Tested at the brand’s Denver headquarters. 7.5/10.
Entry for the April 4, 2027 Paris Marathon opened Tuesday under a new name, the ASICS Marathon de Paris, and the general field will be picked by draw for the first time.
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