The first time I ever ran for the sake of running—not between bases during a softball game or to avoid being tagged “it” at recess—was for the Presidential Fitness Test, a set of fitness assessments ...

My fear of not finishing a stage of the TransRockies Run made me determined to be as prepared as possible for race day.

Alone in the fog, after six days of running through the British mountains, Raf Willems began to speak with the grass and stones. About what, he doesn’t know. The air was freezing, but he liked it that ...

Nothing feels more satisfying than turning your tracker off after a run and appreciating the miles logged on the screen. But how do you decide how many miles to run in the first place? There’s ...

There's plenty of fodder around the benefits of logging 10,000 steps per day for better health. The idea is mostly the product of a myth started by some clever marketing in 1965 by Yamasa Tokei, a ...

Hundreds of thousands of runners compete in marathons every year — but a smaller subset of athletes take things even further, competing in longer races known as ultramarathons, which can range from 30 ...