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321 articles — Looks back across more than a century of marathon and ultramarathon running — from Pheidippides and the founding of the modern marathon at the 1896 Athens Olympics, through the post-war American boom, to the Salazar/Beardsley era and the modern explosion. The Marathon & Beyond archive is unusually rich in long-form running history.

Vol. 5, No. 6 · 2001 Matters of the Sole WANT TO cut way down on your running injuries while saving money and maybe even going faster? Sounds great, eh? A bit too good to be… Richard Englehart · 19 min read Vol. 5, No. 2 · 2001 The Couple That Runs Together Rusty would too. The rest of the workout was more of the same: a pyramid of distances from 400 meters to 800 meters, and then back… Mary Nicole Nazzaro · 19 min read Vol. 5, No. 2 · 2001 Pikes Peak and Bust The start of the 1963 Pikes Peak Marathon with 28 runners, among them a young doctor named Peter Wood. The gun was fired without further ado,… Peter D. Wood · 20 min read Vol. 5, No. 2 · 2001 The Deed Is Done Home. Just one plane ride and one train ride away, followed by a five-mile zoom in my pal George Terry's powerful Pontiac. Then, on Monday morning,… John J. Kelley · 14 min read Vol. 4, No. 4 · 2000 Running’s Been Good I proceeded to train like a demon during the winter. Unfortunately, I got waylaid along the way. . . . In April, the Runner's World staff… Richard Benyo · 12 min read Vol. 4, No. 4 · 2000 Running Was My Best Friend (age 40, 9 completed marathons, 2:12 PR) WHEN I first began running in high school, I hated it. The possibility of running a marathon seemed about… Mark Conover · 6 min read Vol. 4, No. 3 · 2000 Blow Up, Break Down A FAT woman in hospital pants isn't much of an anomaly in a Midwestern airport. But it was a unique experience for me, a normally slight… Stephanie Ehret · 23 min read Vol. 4, No. 3 · 2000 The Man of Steele Defies Science Someone forgot to tell Fay Steele that sprinters and distance runners, especially ultrarunners, are totally different breeds. As they say in the Army, Steele didn't get… Mike Tymn · 17 min read Vol. 2, No. 5 · 1998 Where Eagles Dwell Charl Mattheus trains near the Leadville 100 course, here along Twin Lakes, about 20 miles from Leadville, as the eagle flies. M&B: You have selected an… Theresa Daus-Weber · 9 min read Vol. 2, No. 5 · 1998 From Within the Ashes The Belgrade Marathon reflects the ups and downs of Yugoslavia, a country torn apart by war that is now learning to live in peace, although the… Michael Sandrock · 13 min read Vol. 2, No. 5 · 1998 Hanging with the Legends Flashback 30+ Years It was the summer of 1960. The place was Rome. In less than an hour a shoemaker from Auckland, New Zealand, became a… Nobuya Hashizume · 13 min read Vol. 2, No. 2 · 1998 Use It or Lose It YOUR LONG-distance running performances generally peak when you are somewhere between the early 20s and the mid-30s. After that, there is an inevitable decline in performance… Keith R. Williams · 12 min read Vol. 2, No. 2 · 1998 Masters of the Marathon THIS PIECE is a personal reminiscence, not a researched analysis. A full history of the masters marathon would have to recognize such pioneers as Jack Holden,… Roger Robinson · 23 min read Vol. 2, No. 1 · 1998 Marathon Training DAY 1 TIP: View the marathon as the Mount Everest of running. It's a peak that every runner dreams of scaling at least once. You too… Joe Henderson · 15 min read Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 Beating the Heat Beating the Heat WEATHER EXPERTS consider the United States and Canada temperate regions, but try telling that to a runner in New Orleans or Phoenix in… David E. Martin · 23 min read Vol. 1, No. 4 · 1997 Into the Valley of Death In 1913, Furnace Creek was merely a godforsaken ranch where its owners, Eagle Borax Company, attempted to cultivate date palms. As one of his tedium-splintering duties,… Richard Benyo · 30 min read Vol. 1, No. 3 · 1997 Trends in Elite-Level Marathon Performances THE PIONEERING exercise physiologist Archibald Hill concluded long ago (1924) that one could learn much about the limits of athletic performance by studying the results of… David E. Martin · 22 min read Vol. 6, No. 6 · 2002 Just Call Me Jock Chapters 1 through 6 appeared in our last three issues. CHAPTER 7 "John Kelly, sir," he said. And I said to myself as I thought of… Jock Semple · 31 min read Vol. 6, No. 6 · 2002 The Completion of the Circle FOR A few years now, ultrarunners in the Ontario, Canada, area have talked about organizing a fast 100K race to have a World Challenge qualifier on… John Remington · 14 min read Vol. 6, No. 6 · 2002 DeMar@Home: What Was It Like With “Mr. Marathon” Living in the Same Neighborhood? WITH ALL the complications that go with technological development, from satellites and space explorations to genetic coding and cloning, we long for what we nostalgically refer… James Goldsmith · 29 min read Vol. 6, No. 6 · 2002 Collecting on the Run IT BEGAN with tobacco cards, of all things. Here I was, a guy who hated anything associated with cigarettes, fascinated by a pile of early-20th-century cards—distributed… Dave Kayser · 14 min read Vol. 6, No. 5 · 2002 To the Peak JUST AS Mother Nature is the dominant force in the natural world, the Peak Busters has been a major force behind women moving not only forward… Theresa Daus-Weber · 12 min read Vol. 6, No. 4 · 2002 Just Call Me Jock Chapters 1 and 2 of Just Call Me Jock appeared in our May/June 2002 issue. CHAPTER 3 "Use the opportunity . . . "—Frank Semple to… Jock Semple · 35 min read Vol. 6, No. 4 · 2002 Courage and Endurance On October 4, 1931, officer John Salo of the Passaic, New Jersey, police department was killed in the line of duty, leaving a widow, two children,… Charles Kastner · 20 min read

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