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Theresa Hailey has been dreaming of qualifying for the Olympic Marathon Trials from the day she joined her club, a couple of years after she graduated from college. For the [...]

As temperatures rise, running doesn't need to be a total suffer-fest. I Here's what to expect and how to prepare for the summer ahead. However many bad-weather-will-make-you-tougher quotes we collect, [...]

THERE'S NO DENYING WE'RE GOING TO GET SLOWER. BUT SUCCESSFUL RUNNERS KEEP COMPETING BY ADAPTING AND REINVENTING THEMSELVES AT EACH MILESTONE. HERE'S HOW. RUNNING, IT IS OFTEN SAID, IS A [...]

EACH YEAR, STUDIES REPORT THAT SOME- where between one-fifth and one-half of runners get injured. The figure is hard to pin clown because sports medicine researchers aren't in agreement about [...]

Three decades ago, a team of exercise physiologists led by Bertil Sjodin of Sweden's National Defense Research Institute put eight experienced distance and middle-distance runners on treadmills. First, the scientists [...]

ILLUSTRATE BY GEOFTICE Bobbi Jo was racing through the streets of Fairbanks when her iCoach blasted her out of her dream and into her bedroom darkness. 'Rise and shine,' said [...]

Several years ago, Alberto Salazar told me about a time he'd had an injury that was affecting his foot, keeping him from running. So, he had a special orthotic made [...]

WE CALLED HER BAREFOOT Bonnie. She showed up at a training run in Earth Shoes and clobbered most of the guys. Then she ditched even that minimal footwear for a [...]

When Christy Runde lined up for last fall's California International Marathon, she had a string of good performances under her belt in recent years: 3:01:54, 3:05:18, 3:02:13, 3:07:55. She'd been [...]

In 1980, Alberto Salazar got a sore knee. He'd been training for the 10,000m Olympic trials, and developed an iliotibial band problem that just wouldn't go away. So, he did [...]

If there's a rule about deals with the devil, it's that you don't realize you're making one at the time. Especially when the devil in question walks with a cane [...]

NOT LONG AGO. RUNNERS SEEKING TO CORRECT imbalances in their feet had to buy custommade orthotics at prices as high as $400 to $600. Today, however, a host of manufacturers [...]

he weekend after Thanksgiving in Sacramento, Calif., normally serves up some of the best marathon-racing weather in the nation. But when 7,368 runners lined up for the start of the [...]

Sometimes it seems as though there are nearly as many marathon training programs as races. But if your marathon times have plateaued--or simply don't live up to what you think [...]

If you compete in marathons, the time will come when you can't make it to your goal race. Maybe you get the flu. Maybe a storm scrambles transportation, preventing you [...]

Several years ago a team of Japanese researchers put a dozen collegeaged men on exercise bicycles for four to six weeks of training. Following each workout, the research subjects stuck [...]

In the early 1970s, University of Oregon runners did a workout in which they alternated 30-second and 40-second 200s for as long as they could handle it. 'The record was [...]

If you race often enough, over enough years, someday it will happen to you. At that critical time when you should be peaking for a marathon or pushing speed for [...]

HEN GABRIELE GRUNEWALD KICKED PAST JORDAN HASAY AT THIS YEAR'S USA TRACK & 3,000m indoor championship in Albuquerque, N.M., everyone watching presumed aid had sealed her first trip to the [...]

Got more vacation time or hiking desire than your friends? Solo backpacking may be the solution. Before venturing out, make sure your skills and equipment are up to the task. [...]

On Oct. 11, 2009, two women lined up for the start of the Chicago Marathon. Christina Overbeck Crawford was a Chicago-area mechanical engineer looking to test her marathon legs after [...]

In his memoir, 14 Minutes, Alberto Salazar talks about the cautious, long-term approach he took in his early years working with Galen Rupp (whom he's coached for more than a [...]

'TONIGHT, WE'LL START with six by 400, then close with four 200s.' It's the type of announcement you'll hear each week at hundreds of club track workouts throughout the country. [...]

In the 1970s and '80s, the University of Oregon was mostly known for men's track, particularly distance running. Steve Prefontaine, Alberto Salazar, Kenny Moore and others--these were the marquee names. [...]

WEEKEND JAUNTS to the 'dry' Olympics, a backpackers-only view of Washington's Mt. Shuksan, easy off-trail hiking in the Sierra, plus weeklong expeditions to California's Trinity Alps and Washington's Pasayten Wilderness. [...]