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We Love Writing. And Procrastinating. Running Helps Us Do Both.
The two pursuits have more in common than meets the eye
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Run and Read On A Treadmill Without Barfing
New device tracks a runner's movements to adjust text that's being read.
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North Korea is opening the streets of its capital to tourist runners for Pyongyang marathon
Runners of the world, unite! For the first time ever, North Korea is opening up the streets of its capital to runner-tourists for the annual Pyongyang marathon, undoubtedly one of the most exotic feathers in any runner’s cap.
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The 18th Century four-minute mile
Roger Bannister was credited with being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes - but 18th Century runners are reported to have got there first. Why are they not recognised?
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Korea's Dinosaur Robot Outruns Usain Bolt
Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have built a fast-running biped robot that can reach a top speed of 46 km/hour (28.6mph) on a treadmill.
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How Far Do You Run Playing Different Sports?
While watching sports, have you ever stopped (midway through a bowl of Cheetos) to wonder, "How far are those guys actually running?" It's a common question, one that's historically been subject mostly to guesswork, Thanks to some recent technological developments, though, we can now actually apply some data to it.
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The insane things that insane people put themselves through to complete 100-mile marathons
The human body is a weird and amazing machine. It's easy to forget this, alone in the complacency and familiarity of one's own form and rhythms. But then one remembers the existence of runners with the mental and physical stamina to run a hundred miles or more at a stretch and soon the potential of the familiar starts to seem a lot more promising.
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The Color Run™ Canada - The Happiest 5K On The Planet
The Color Run was founded in January of 2012 as an event to promote healthiness and happiness by bringing the community together to participate in the “Happiest 5k on the Planet”. We are the original paint race and have created a completely new genre of running events that continues to grow exponentially.
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Race The Tube - Sprint
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What Will It Take to Run A 2-Hour Marathon
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.
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Five Running Mistakes That Keep You Locked in the Injury Cycle
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.
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Do We Run More On Christmas? And what about New Year's?
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?
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When it comes to jogging, less is more, study argues
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.
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Too much jogging 'as bad as no exercise at all'
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.
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Is 100 Miles the new Marathon?
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.
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Outrunning failure
Fear of failure can keep you from running the course.
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Fellow athletes put Mo Farah's “missed drugs tests” into context
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
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Scott Jurek Breaks Appalachian Trail Thru-Hike Record
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.
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Scott Jurek Sets Supported Appalachian Trail Speed Record
After just 46 days on the trail, legendary ultra marathoner Scott Jurek has reached a milestone in an already illustrious running career.
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Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope Commemorated in New Brunswick Corn Maze
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.
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