RUNNING

or “How I got 50 miles at WTM without ever running” This article recounts my experience in completing World’s Toughest Mudder 2021 without a pit, and without running in training, or during the race.  This is not a race review, but an account of a non-traditional approach to training for, and competing in, the greatest

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. The Puma Nitro XX—named as an homage to the two female X chromosomes—will hit the market on June 10 as a women’s only model. That’s right, there won’t be a comparable men’s model in the Puma line-up. The Nitro XX launches as part

A weekly news show with Matt B. Davis and Dave Claxton discussing items of the week for Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and all other OCR-related news. Today on the show: Which course should be in the Olympics? Ivan Drago vs. Clubber Lang. Spartan Race Canada. Intro and Outro Music by: Eric Leland ORM YouTube Channel Support

Sunday Prep Make aioli for Grilled Whole Red Snapper with Lemon Aioli (recipe through Step 1). Cover and refrigerate. Stuff chicken for Pizza-Stuffed Chicken (recipe through Step 1). Make marinade and pickles for Vietnamese Banh Mi–Style Steak with Pickled Vegetables (recipe through Step 2). Cover and refrigerate. Make marinade, blue cheese dip and spice mix

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. A forecast of storms in Eugene, Oregon, didn’t stop the fans from filling the stands or the athletes from running very, very fast. The Prefontaine Classic, which is the only Diamond League meet held in the U.S. each year, gives athletes the opportunity

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Karissa Schweizer was the clear favorite coming into the U.S. Championships 10,000-meters Friday night at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Her personal best was more than 20 seconds faster than the next woman in the field, and she raced with that confidence, composed

My race plan before used to be this: run as hard as I could out the gate, and then slowly fall off the pace cliff and struggle in. Once things started to feel hard, I just succumbed to the discomfort and wallowed in it. There were no attempts to resuscitate pace, there was no attempt

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. When Emily Infeld steps to the line on Friday at Hayward Field for the U.S. 10,000-meter championships, it will be the first time she’ll compete for a national team as an independent athlete, no longer a member of the Bowerman Track Club, which

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Training your mind is an often-overlooked piece of training. But in recent years, mental training has gained traction. Runners of all levels are finding a competitive edge by practicing skills to help them run their best. The mind-body connection is backed by science.

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. As one of the more attainable road race distances, there’s no shortage of 10Ks in the U.S. In 2021, there were 6,142 events across the country—a 31 percent increase from 2019, before the pandemic wreaked havoc on in-person events, according to an annual

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. As runners, we spend hours upon hours each year ticking off the miles, pushing ourselves through grueling races, and maybe even finding time to work in a gym session here and there. But for every physical workout, there is a mental one accompanying

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Mornings can be tricky. You may like to imagine yourself leisurely taking yourself through stretches, scribbling peacefully in your gratitude journal, and sipping tea from your luxuriously soft white sheets. But the reality is that most mornings you’re more likely to silently curse

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. On the day Agnes Tirop was buried last October, she would have turned 26. She had set the women-only 10K record a month before in September, just one of her accomplishments as a professional runner. The murder of Tirop shook Kenya (her husband

A weekly news show with Matt B. Davis and Dave Claxton discussing items of the week for Spartan Race, Tough Mudder, and all other OCR-related news. Today on the show: Spartan, Savage, Deka, and Hyrox Updates Intro and Outro Music by: Eric Leland ORM YouTube Channel Support Us On Patreon Listen below or on your favorite player.

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. For many people, exercise is a whole lot more than just a way to make physical progress. And if you’ve been running for awhile, you’ve probably read about (or experienced) the many ways exercise can benefit your mental health. It doesn’t take all

Marta Fisher bent to kiss the ram’s head painted onto a grubby block of mining debris. It was three a.m., and the gravel street in front of Silverton Middle High School was empty, but for Fisher, her crew, and the  infamous white rock that marks the finish line of the Hardrock 100. Fisher jumped in