Running

Meet Scott Bailey, the man perfecting the running short.

What makes a man quit his job and strike out on a quest to run 59 marathons?

Strengthen your discs and improve your spinal health.

From Michael Johnson’s gold spikes to one of the first shoes Nike ever made.

Ditch the cotton shorts and sleeveless tee.

Time to stop looking like a grade school gym teacher.

For decades, the runner’s bib has been nothing more than a piece of paper slapped on with a few safety pins.

A track spike to help Olympic athletes run even faster.

Record-holding marathoner Michael Wardian shares a few exercises he does to improve his running.

The brand’s first trail shoe sports some impressive tech.

A shoe worthy of the Kenyan running tradition.

There’s the right way and the long way to take on a marathon.

Myth or truth?

Like to run when everyone else is inside keeping warm with red wine and braised short ribs?

Mountaineer and ultra runner Ben Clark shares his tips on becoming a faster runner, whether your aim is a local 5k or, like him, 14,000-foot peaks over 100 miles.

Sequels tend to suck (Caddyshack II, I’m looking at you), and when they’ve got 26.2 miles of pavement in them, the suck-potential goes exponentially up. After my second marathon, I came up with some advice to my former self, who was still prepping for his first.

Is “maximalist” the next big thing in running? There’s certainly a lot to love.

Mountaineer and ultra runner Ben Clark shares photos from his single-day run across Zion National Park, also known as the Zion Traverse.

In urban settings like New York, walking, let alone running, is hard enough. With the abundance of hazards — from reckless taxis to sharp-eyed grannies — hitting the streets in your new pair of kicks often means putting your life on the line.

You’ve probably been hearing more about them: occasional murmurs of very long distance races, men and women running six marathons across the Sahara, a 3,100 mile race in Queens, NY, in the middle of summer. Ultrarunning, or running more than a 26.2 mile marathon in a single shot, seems an unlikely pursuit — and it is.