RUNNING

In the endurance world, there can be a disconnect between what sports nutrition science shows is the best way to fuel athletic pursuits and how athletes actually choose to eat. No better example of this exists than the convoluted understanding of carbs. Even though decades of research has demonstrated the importance of this macronutrient for

I wasn’t too impressed with my first marathon experience.  Don’t get me wrong . . . I loved the 2008 New York City Marathon with its amazing crowd support, challenging course, and the thrill of running through New York’s five boroughs. But like many marathoners, I hit the wall at mile 20. Each subsequent mile

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. I’m obsessed with running gels.  “You’re hooked,” my fiancé would say every time I came home from a trip to my local running store with a heap of energy gels. It’s not goo, I would tell him. It’s gel. I thought he was

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Few trail runners have as inspiring and impressive of a story as Mira Rai. Born in the remote village of Bhojpur, Nepal (200-plus miles east of Kathmandu), Rai rocked the trail running world when she won the 50 kilometer Himalayan Outdoor Festival race

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. If you’ve seen the famous Monty Python “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch from 1970 then the likelihood of having Mr. Teabag’s lanky and erratic gait on repeat in your head on mention is high. It’s a high kick step, followed by a skip,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Although it seems like the once-common concern that “running is bad for your knees” has been debunked, the truth is that knee pain can still be quite prevalent among runners. Knee pain from running can take on any number of forms or presentations,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Training for any race can be hard when it comes to life’s distractions. We have families, work, friends, hobbies and more that can all take away from time spent hitting the roads. This is not always a bad thing, but sometimes it isn’t

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Strength training is a crucial part of training that many runners miss. It is easy to get caught up focusing on your long runs and speed work—but that alone won’t make you stronger. Strength training not only makes your muscles and joints stronger

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. While women’s representation in running has come a long way, we are still far from seeing a 50/50 split at the start lines of ultra races in 2023. According to RunRepeat’s State of Ultrarunning’s report, 23 percent of ultra marathon participants in 2022

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Tim Tollefson celebrated the new year shoveling a lot of snow, dreaming about a summer of possibility, and changing his shoes. After six years with Hoka, Tollefson, 37, the well-known elite American ultrarunner from Mammoth Lakes, California, signed a new multi-year sponsorship deal

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. There are many different ways you can structure strength training workouts in terms of the number of reps and sets you perform for each exercise, and the order in which you do the sets for the different exercises in your workout. Although most

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Today, January 24th, the Boston Athletic Association announced a pregnancy deferral policy, effective immediately, that would allow any athlete who is registered in any BAA event, and becomes pregnant prior to race day to defer into one of the next two subsequent future