Featured Columns

These Are the Best Marathons in the World

Article added January 9, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Featured News, Motivation, News

Written By: RUNNER'S WORLD EDITORS

We’ve run nearly 200 of ’em. Here are our favourites. Signing on for a marathon is one of the biggest commitments a runner can make. It’s a promise to wake up early on weekends, go longer than you’re used to (and then longer again), and run yourself into the best shape of your life. So how do […]

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Christmas Carols: The Running Editions

Article added December 21, 2019 Categories Columns, Featured Columns

Written By: Ted Spiker
Photography by: Emma & Tom's Christmas Run

If runners wrote these popular holiday songs.

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This Holiday Season Do Less, Love More

Article added December 9, 2019 Categories Columns, Featured Columns

Written By: Kristin Armstrong

Celebrate peace by avoiding holiday stress.

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At 13, she broke the women’s marathon world record. Then she disappeared from running

Article added October 21, 2019 Categories Featured Columns, Motivation

Written By: Runner's World US

Inside the little-known race in 1967 that helped spark equality in women’s distance running. On May 6, 1967, Maureen Wilton, a 13-year-old girl from a suburb of Toronto, Canada, attempted to break the women’s marathon world record of 3:19 at a small race a few km from her home. Under the guidance of her track […]

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Women Deserve to Run Without Fear

Article added October 16, 2019 Categories Columns, Featured Columns, Motivation

Written By: Christine Yu

Eighty-four percent of women we surveyed have been harassed while running. It’s time for that to change. On the last Saturday of June 2019, Bryanna Gondeiro-Petrie left her in-laws’ house in eastern Washington state around 5:30 a.m. and headed down a lightly trafficked road. She needed to get out earlier than normal to squeeze in […]

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