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.
On the Road with Scott Douglas Kathrine SwitzerColumnJuly 200054 min RUNNERS: YEAH, WE'RE ALIKE When he was running for president in 1988, Richard Gephardt would tell this story: The Air…
Santa Clarita Marathon Editorial StaffFeatureJuly 200027 min Courtesy of the Santa Clarita Marathon GEOGRAPHY INFLUENCES history more often than the other way around. The proof of Nicolaus Copernicus's heretical theory…
On the Road With Kathrine Switzer: May/June 2000 Kathrine SwitzerColumnMay 2000104 min Zatopek, if bad weather interferes with your training?) But underlying much ofeven the most bizarre tips in the…
Editorial: IQ Aerobics Richard BenyoEditorialMay 20006 min IQ AEROBICS Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when many of us were running more marathons than was wise, several of…
The burst of oxygen and nutrients fuses with damaged or near-dead IQ points and slowly revives them, slowly but surely bringing them back on line (or on board, if you want to stay away from the too-too modern and stick with the sailboat analogy)
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The burst of oxygen and nutrients fuses with damaged or near-dead IQ points and slowly revives them, slowly but surely bringing them back on line (or on board, if you…
On The Mark Editorial StaffDepartmentMay 20003 min 1. RACE FOR SPEED. If you run enough shorter races (a 10K, 15K) while building toward a marathon, is it still necessary to…
On the Mark: Hill Training (July/August 1999) Mark ConoverDepartmentJuly 19995 min hill runs a week with a combination of lactate threshold training and moderately hilly to flat runs at about…
My Most Unforgettable: May/June 1999 Helen KleinDepartmentMay 199940 min My Most Unforgettable Ultramarathon (And What | Learned From It) JANE BYNG ASATCH MOUNTAINS, UTAH, September 9-10, 1989—Due to circumstances somewhat…
Portland Marathon Editorial StaffFeatureMay 199914 min The Race Attempts to Be All Things to All People, While Its Race Director Makes It All Look Too Easy. \ \ ] HEN…
Marathon Clarence DeMarFeatureNovember 199824 min Special Book im Marathon The Autobiography of Clarence DeMar: Part Il The man who became a Boston Marathon legend takes us behind the scenes of…
Breaking Barriers in the Marathon David E. Martin, PhdFeatureNovember 199816 min SPECIAL SPORTS MEDICINE SECTION Breaking Barriers ‘in the Marathon Track Distance World Records Keep Falling, But the Men’s Marathon…
