Late last October, U.S. ultramarathon legend Bernd Heinrich, now 81, made a quiet trip to Chicago to reprise one of the greatest performances in American running history. Forty years ago, in October ...

Runners tackle marathons for all sorts of reasons. We run them to commemorate milestones, to grow as athletes, and, in some cases, just to prove we can. Regardless of why you set out to run 26.2, one ...

What started as a dreaded challenge became a lesson in consistency and accountability.

My very first run ever was on the levee along the banks of the Mississippi River in a little town just outside of New Orleans. I was five years old, and I remember the damp warmth of the Louisiana air ...

Waterville’s Central Maine Striders, established in 1975, has been around longer than any of the state’s several dozen active running clubs, and a few of its more than 100 members trace their ...