Motivation

3 pros and the running lessons learnt in lockdown

Article added September 28, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Motivation, Motivation Essentials, Your stories

Written By: YANAR ALKAYAT

The silver linings from challenging moments When the world decided to lock down and take a break for COVID-19, more people than ever took to the streets, fields and hills to run. Lacing up seemed to lend a natural sense of freedom and a way to feel in control of one’s health and […]

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The Psychology Behind Why We Still Can’t Get Enough of Usain Bolt

Article added September 23, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Motivation

Written By: ELIZABETH MILLARD

And Deena Kastor. And Tatyana McFadden. And every other individual athlete, as opposed to a team. According to a recent study published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, there’s a reason why we tend to cheer for one person instead of a team. Researchers found that people were more invested in the success of one athlete—in this […]

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Aging Doesn’t Slow Your Running Down That Much

Article added September 9, 2020 Categories Featured Columns, Human Race

Written By: HAILEY MIDDLEBROOK

Research suggests that our fitness declines much more gradually than we thought. As runners hit age 40 and older, their speed and race times naturally start to slow. However, this decline is gradual—between ages 40 and 70, runners slowed by a rate of about 1 percent each year; runners in their 70s began to decline by about […]

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Joshua Cheptegei Is Pursuing Greatness

Article added August 25, 2020 Categories Featured News, Motivation, News

Written By: ANDREW DAWSON

Will We See the Newest World Record on Strava? A Q&A With Joshua Cheptegei We all saw Cheptegei stop his watch at the finish of his world-record 5,000 meters. Time to give him some kudos? Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei broke his fourth world record at the age of 23. In a year turned upside-down by the coronavirus pandemic, […]

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How to run your own virtual marathon (sensibly)

Article added August 17, 2020 Categories Featured Training, Motivation, Race Training

Written By: THE RUNNER'S WORLD EDITORS

The spread of coronavirus is leading to the cancellation of many big-city marathons, but that doesn’t mean your training is in vain. With the news that the London Marathon will be going ahead as an elite-only race this year along with many others that have been cancelled, it’s easy to feel disappointed or unmotivated at having […]

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