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Marathon running

June 2024

  • A woman runs past a group of people, including her husband with baby in sling and a placard reading 'Please be home for bath time!'

    ‘I’m like a single parent for months while he trains’: the partners of fitness fanatics who are left holding the baby

    Spending your weekends watching the kids while your other half heads out on another training ride? You’re not alone. Meet the Lycra widows and widowers picking up the slack

May 2024

  • Rob Burrow alongside wife Lindsey, daughters Macy and Maya, and friend Kevin Sinfield at the Leeds Maratton finishing line

    Kevin Sinfield among 14,000 who complete Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon

    Burrow waited at finish line at Headingley to see his friend and former Leeds Rhinos team-mate complete the race

April 2024

  • The ‘marathon monks’ of Mount Hiei in Japan.

    A short history of running very long distances

  • Harry Hunter seen on his own tackling an uphill slope in the sand

    ‘The heat is burning’: Harry Hunter, 76, becomes oldest Briton to complete Marathon des Sables

  • Winners Peres ­Jepchirchir and Alexander Mutiso Munyao were joined by Britain’s Emile Cairess in securing Olympic places

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    London Marathon: Peres Jepchirchir breaks record as elite runners secure Olympic places – video

  • Runners in colourful clothing in bushland

    Heartbreak Hill to the Great Ocean Road: six of Australia’s best marathons and fun runs

  • Inside San Quentin’s marathon club: ‘For that day they are runners, not criminals’

  • ‘Why wouldn’t you, if you can run faster?’: the unstoppable rise of the carbon-fibre super shoe

February 2024

  • Kelvin Kiptum: marathon runner's record-breaking career – video obituary

    The men's world marathon record holder, Kelvin Kiptum, has died in a road accident in Kenya at the age of 24

December 2023

  • Wally Hesseltine has run 180 ultramarathons, broken his pelvis in a skiing accident, his nose in a fall, and tore a rotator cuff … and keeps on ticking.

    ‘Ten-minute miles are the new eight’: the senior ultrarunners pushing the envelope

    Not only are more runners doing ultramarathons in their seventies and eighties, they’re also going faster

September 2023

  • Ethiopian runner Tigist Assefa celebrates after the Berlin marathon

    ‘When I saw her time, I pinched myself!’ – why women’s running records are being smashed

  • Tigist Assefa celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the women's division of the Berlin marathon in world record time on Sunday.

    Did Tigist Assefa’s ‘super shoes’ make her a record-breaking marathon winner?

  • Illustration of an older man happily running ahead of a younger, sweating woman

    Never past your prime! 13 peaks we reach at 40 or later – from sex to running to self-esteem

  • Steve Moneghetti, Three things for September 18.

    Three things
    Three things with marathon champion Steve Moneghetti: ‘My secret weapon is an ice-pack holder’

  • Self and wellbeing
    Running marathons helped me write my novel

  • Sydney marathon runners hospitalised after event hit by spring heat

  • Mexico City Marathon expels 11,000 runners for cutting sections of course

July 2023

  • Mauro Prosperi on Mount Etna, in Sicily, his most regular training ground.

    How we survive
    I was lost in the desert for nine and a half days – and sustained myself with raw bats and urine

    In 1994, Mauro Prosperi was running an ultramarathon through the Sahara when he was blown off course by a sandstorm. Alone and dangerously dehydrated, he found nourishment in unexpected places

May 2023

  • Rob Burrow and Kevin Sinfield during the 2023 Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon

    Kevin Sinfield carries Rob Burrow over the line at Leeds Marathon

  • Kevin Sinfield with Rob and Lindsey Burrow

    Kevin Sinfield: ‘The longer this marathon takes, the more time I get to spend with Rob’

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