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Hey runners, in today's newsletter, London's ballot has spoken and the running world is shifting around it.
A record 1.33 million people learned their 2027 London Marathon fate this week, with 100,000 landing spots across the two-day Double. Many of the runners shut out are already turning to Brighton three weeks earlier.
Elsewhere, Russia has taken its track and field ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and Trish Patterson just ran 425 miles across Britain's Three Peaks in five days and 21 hours to smash the women's world record. In more sobering news, Gout Gout has torn his hamstring and won't race again until 2027, and a runner was stabbed on Table Mountain amid growing safety fears.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: a start line checklist for race day, 12 great core exercises for runners, and how to dial in your weekly mileage for marathon training.
Priced out of $300 tickets, Jackson Kelly looped Fenway Park in the rain and caught the whole show from the sidewalk. With more Kahan nights at Fenway still to come, the hack could work again.
One week after World Athletics kept its ban in place, Russia's federation has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The outcome could decide whether Russian track athletes make it to Los Angeles in 2028.
The latest episode of Kerr's Project 222 series goes home to Edinburgh, where a rugby-pro father and brother and a physio mother built the runner now chasing 3:43.13.
The Swiss watchmaker already sponsors Courtney Dauwalter and three other stars of the sport. Now the Rolex sister brand is an official partner of the entire UTMB World Series.
Three suspects reportedly attacked a runner near Tafelberg Road on Wednesday morning, prompting fresh calls for cameras and rangers on one of the world's most famous trail networks.
Results from the record-breaking ballot for the 2027 Double are landing in inboxes today. 100,000 runners will race across two days next April, 45,000 on Saturday and 55,000 on Sunday.
The 18-year-old Australian sprint star tore his left hamstring in training in Brisbane, ruling him out of next month's World U20 Championships in Eugene, the meet he skipped the Commonwealth Games to target.
The self-funded 28-year-old balances a PhD with 12-mile morning sessions, and she arrives at her first major track championships in the form of her life.
Dmitry Klimov's 123 loops and Vera Chekalina's 96 will not count, after footage reportedly showed non-competitors accompanying runners on the course. Phil Gore's and Sarah Perry's records stand.
The 41-year-old mother of twins ran between Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, and Yr Wyddfa in five days and 21 hours, taking more than eight hours off the women's record set just two years ago.
A record 1.33 million people applied for 100,000 places at the 2027 Double London Marathon. Many of those who missed out will end up on the south coast three weeks earlier, at a race with open entry and its own trade-offs.
Psychologists have measured the partner effect since 1898. Newer research suggests the gap between paced and solo running lives mostly in your head, and that it can be trained.
This week on The Running Story, Michael Doyle and Jessy Carveth break down five huge stories from the running world: 7-Eleven's lawsuit against Nike over a suspiciously familiar Air Max 95 colorway, Eliud Kipchoge's wife Grace Segut lining up for her second marathon, an American's jaw-dropping sub-2:30 marathon workout on a Planet Fitness treadmill, the new "lactate gel" fueling technology taking over marathons and the Tour de France, and the stacked elite fields just announced for the December Valencia Marathon.
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