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Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. A few years ago, Nike-sponsored runners Alysia Montaño and Kara Goucher publicly revealed the extent to which their pay had been slashed when they got pregnant. Allyson Felix followed up with the story of how Nike had offered her a contract with a

Table of Contents Will Sleep Loss Before a Race Affect Performance? Barriers to Sleep During Race Week Performing Well Despite Sleep Loss Race week is finally here. You’ve put the hay in the barn, your training is easing up, and you’re looking forward to one sweet celebration day out on the course. Your nutrition’s on

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Percussion massage guns can have great benefits, from decreasing muscle tension, increasing mobility, and elevating blood flow to helping with pain and typical workout soreness. And by now, the chances are you either own one of these tools, have used one, or know

It’s been 45 years since the invention of the sports bra, an early example of activewear designed for women. Yet for much of the sporting-goods industry, adapting men’s gear for women instead of creating women-specific gear is still the name of the game nearly 50 years later. While there are many products marketed to women,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. It wasn’t even close. Team USA led the 4×400 meter relay the whole way. Talitha Diggs to Abby Steiner to Britton Wilson to Sydney McLaughlin. They ran 3:17.79, the fastest time in the world this year and the eighth fastest time ever run,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Athing Mu hasn’t lost an 800 in over two years, since February 2020. Today in Eugene, Oregon, the streak continued. Mu’s 1:56.30 performance in the 800 meter final makes her the youngest woman to ever win both Olympic and World Championships gold. “I’m

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Jamaica finished first, second, and third in the women’s open 100m, but the U.S. beat them today in the 4x100m relay. The relay is about so much more than having the fastest runners. “You can have the four fastest women, but if you

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. The women’s 5,000 is usually an event that’s dominated by east Africans on the global stage. All three Americans–Elise Cranny, Emily Infeld, and Karissa Schweizer–qualified for the final. But in the final they all struggled. The pace was slow from the gun. Everybody

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Dalilah Muhammad is known for going out hard. It’s a tactic that has worked for her in the past: She’s the reigning World champion in this event. But today Sydney McLaughlin beat her to the first hurdle. It appeared that McLaughlin was trying

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Last night in Eugene, Oregon, Abby Steiner placed fifth in the world in the 200 meters, with a time of 22.26. She was the top American. Her 21.77 at U.S. championships a few weeks ago was the second-fastest time in the world this

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. On Monday, longtime track and field photographer Kevin Morris had been documenting the women’s World Championships Marathon from points off of Pre’s Trail in Eugene, Oregon. Focused mostly on Team USA—Sara Hall, Emma Bates, and Keira D’Amato—he eventually took his place in the