Paris Marathon in France April 3, 2016.

Starting a new running habit doesn’t have to be hard. The Well Guide makes it easy to get started, get inspired and stay on track. Are you ready? Let’s go! By Tara Parker-Pope.

If you fancy an early morning run accompanied by hyenas, try the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

What's the deal with that sharp pain in your side when you're trying to win that marathon? SciShow has the answers!

The story of Matthew Inman, creator of TheOatmeal.com, inventor of the record breaking kickstarter-funded card game - Exploding Kittens, and founder of the Beat The Blerch race series.

The most popular trails for runners in New York, Miami, Paris and more

If you're a big runner like me you know what I'm talking about when I describe that euphoric feeling you get in the middle of your workout — when your feet feel like they are floating over the ground and you can almost hear the air dancing past you. It turns out it's not all in your mind.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Dutch flier Dafne Schippers pipped Jamaica's Elaine Thompson by three hundredths of a second to win the women's 200 meters at the world championships on Friday. The former heptathlete, who won silver in the 100 meters behind Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Monday, surged to the line in 21.63 seconds, the fastest time in 17 years in the half-lap sprint. Thompson took silver in a personal best time of 21.66, while bronze went to twice Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown.

Hunter Brothers Farm in Florenceville-Bristol N.B. created a 2.5-hectare corn maze to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope.

After just 46 days on the trail, legendary ultra marathoner Scott Jurek has reached a milestone in an already illustrious running career.

A little after 2 p.m. ET on Sunday, ultramarathoner Scott Jurek crested the summit of Mount Katahdin in Maine, becoming the fastest person to finish a supported thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail. He completed the 2,189-mile journey in 46 days, 8-plus hours, breaking the previous record by just more than three hours.

As claims surface about the double Olympic champion reportedly having missed two doping tests in 2010/11, other athletes share their thoughts on the topic

Fear of failure can keep you from running the course.

Curious more than anything, Magdalena Boulet took a spot at the edge of the Placer High School track in the Sierra Nevada foothills to watch the end of the Western States Endurance Run, the prestigious 100–mile event that gave rise to the ultrarunning movement. In 2013, she was deep into a career that made her one of the top distance runners in the J U.S.—second at the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials, owner of a 2:26:22 personal best, and a two–time world cross country medalist.

Hey, fitness junkies, here's something to ponder the next time you lace up your athletic shoes for that long, heart-pounding run: A Danish study recently concluded that high-intensity, high-mileage joggers die at the same rate as channel-surfing couch potatoes. The study, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, is the latest to confront the controversial topic of what constitutes too much exercise.

Scientists studied more than 1,000 healthy joggers and non-joggers over a 12-year period. Those who jogged at a steady pace for less than two and a half hours a week were least likely to die in this time. But those who ran more than four hours a week or did no exercise had the highest death rates.

We know more runners run on Thanksgiving than on any other holiday. The threat of abundance in the form of a good meal is enough to send thousands of us out for a pre-emptive 5-K (or 10-K or whatever). So where does Christmas stack up in the must-run-on-this-holiday hierarchy? And do runners in the U.S. behave the same on that day as runners in say, France or Mexico? What about New Year's Day–do runners the world over start the year off with a bang, or a rest day?

Your body is not a machine, and you shouldn't treat it like one even if you think you can "tough it out." You need to put as much care and consideration on your recovery as you do your workouts. Here are some common running mistakes that can compound the stress you're placing on your body.

The current world record of 2:02:57, set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto this year in Berlin, works out to 4:41.5 per mile; a sub-two would require less than 4:35 per mile. Will a human ever run that fast? To answer that question, we assembled a database of more than 10,000 top marathon performances going back half a century, using rankings compiled by the Association of Road Racing Statisticians.