RUNNING

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. The famed fictional character Forrest Gump ran for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours with no break. “I just felt like running,” Forrest says when asked why he ran for so long. But running nearly continuously for three-plus years would

Racing is 100 percent mental. OK, it’s some percent physical, but really our minds run the ship. Realizing how much control our mind has over our race completely transformed my running. Up until then, I would think once I started falling off the pace, that it was OK to wallow in total misery and just

OCR Champion Faye Stenning and Olympian Jess O’Connell, have brought their coaching platform to the Obstacle Racing Media family of podcasts. As we are all well aware, there are LOTS of different ways to strength train. This week, we chat about the type of strength training that is particularly beneficial for PEOPLE WHO RUN –

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Running shoes and athletic apparel have not traditionally been the most earth-friendly products. Due to petrochemicals used in manufacturing and the carbon footprint they leave, running shoes and apparel present a specific challenge. But the industry is changing, and many running brands are

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. If you’re like me, your laundry basket is filled mostly with activewear: sports bras, athletic shirts, running socks—all things that get only one sweaty use before they are done for the week. The jeans I wear out to drinks with a friend, or

Have you ever fallen into the trap of thinking that eating less could somehow make you run faster? I certainly have. It was a combo of wanting to look “more fit” and “like a runner” and also just thinking that the only fast runners were the leanest—so I needed to get leaner. I actually had

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. When you think about protein bars, what comes to mind? Convenience? Recovery Food? Quick Energy? While whole foods are preferred to get in overall balanced nutrition, protein bars can provide quick sources of all of the macronutrients (carbs, protein, and fats) as well

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. At some point in every runner’s life, they’ll be faced with a decision: run in the freezing rain, sleet, snow, negative temperatures, head to the gym to use a treadmill, or don’t run at all. If we land on the “head to the

The Limitless series is presented in partnership with Under Armour Like many runners, Carolyn Su was initially drawn to the sport as a form of exercise. Su was in college and had been struggling with an eating disorder. At the time, “I just needed to monitor calories in versus calories out,” she says. “It wasn’t

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. On Monday, April 18, 30,000 runners took to the streets of Boston to run in the 126th Boston Marathon. Six of those runners, who ran through the traditional territories of Massachusett, Naumkeag, and Pawtucket peoples, were women from different Indigenous cultures, families, clans,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Her Boston Marathon lead up was not perfect. In fact, Jess Gillman might say this was some of her worst marathon training. Not even a year postpartum, she knew her body would not be the same as before, perhaps a bit slower. And

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Ever since the first carbon-plated super shoes hit the roads, they’ve dominated the pro running conversation. With any speedy performance, we want to know what latest shoe technology were they wearing? That was certainly the case for Monday’s thrilling Boston Marathon where Peres

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Nell Rojas has always bet on herself and taken her own path. And the more she keeps doing it, the more it keeps paying off: She bet on herself at the 126th running of the Boston Marathon on April 18, where Rojas was

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. Joan Benoit Samuelson has a prominent place in running history. At the first Olympic marathon for women—in Los Angeles at the 1984 Olympics—she left the rest of the pack behind at mile 3 and won gold. It was a spectacular victory for her,

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. The women’s professional field on Monday at the 2022 Boston Marathon was touted as the one of the fastest ever to compete—which is saying a lot when the day also marked the 50th anniversary of the first time women were officially allowed to

Get access to everything we publish when you sign up for Outside+. It was down to a two-woman race with a mile to go on Monday at the 2022 Boston Marathon and it looked like Peres Jepchirchir, the reigning Olympic champion from Kenya, was going to drop Ethiopian Ababel Yeshaneh. But it wasn’t over yet.