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Hey runners, in today's newsletter, all eyes are on London this Saturday.
Josh Kerr's mile world record attempt is unlike any that came before it, engineered from the start to count where past barrier runs were exhibitions the record books ignored. He'll need to run 2.2 seconds faster than the 27-year-old record, and Yared Nuguse looms as the biggest threat between him and history.
Elsewhere, NASA's Perseverance rover just clocked 26.2 miles on Mars, and 24-year-old Kylie Mantz ran a 5:26 mile at 38 weeks pregnant. Gabby Thomas also hinted her next chapter may be women's health research. Meanwhile, after two heat-related deaths at races in France, we've broken down what runners should actually be drinking in this heat by distance and effort.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: the 15 emotional stages of marathon running, a runner's guide to HRV, and a full breakdown of threshold workouts and pace.
The most celebrated barrier runs of this century were exhibitions the record book ignored. The 3:42.00 Kerr chases in London on Saturday was engineered, from the start, to count.
Speaking in London a day before facing Julien Alfred over 200m, the triple Olympic champion said she may take on the research gap in elite women's health once her season ends in Budapest this September.
The rover reached 26.2 miles of total driving on June 14, five years and four months into its mission, less than half the time the only other marathoner in Mars history needed.
The 24-year-old BYU walk-on, who unknowingly ran her winning marathon debut while newly pregnant in November, clocked 5:26.2 at altitude in Provo. Baby Mantz is due within days.
The Greek Odyssey Running Festival debuts in Costa Navarino on November 14, with a half marathon and 10K through the same Peloponnese coastline Christopher Nolan just used to film The Odyssey, timed as the ideal add-on to the Athens Marathon.
The race organizers reaffirmed the centenary date a day after Athletics South Africa voided its own official's written approval of it. A high court case is expected within days, and the association's 8,000 members vote on the federation question at a meeting planned for Aug. 1.
Ready to take your running to the next level? Learn exactly how threshold training works—and get a set of proven, time-based workouts you can add straight into your weekly plan to boost speed and stamina.
The 40-year-old Frenchman crossed Corsica in 29:46:20 on July 8 and 9, taking more than 40 minutes off Lambert Santelli's 2021 mark. The run still awaits official ratification.
The mile world record has stood for 27 years. To take it down at the London Diamond League on Saturday, Kerr will need to run more than half a second per lap faster than he ever has.
A runner collapsed and died during a Paris race and a woman died of heat stroke at a competition in Lyon on the same Sunday. As a second summer of record heat bakes Europe and North America, here is how to match fluid, sodium, and carbohydrate to the run in front of you.
While Pogačar rides toward a fifth Tour de France, every candidate for his equivalent in running holds one piece of his dominance and lacks the rest. The reason lies in how the sport is built.
Kerr has spent four months building Saturday's Emsley Carr Mile around a 3:42 target. On the evidence, the biggest threat to his win is Yared Nuguse, the fastest miler in the field.
On the day Nike launched a signature collection built around Keely Hodgkinson's racing kit, a new argument erupted over Europe's guidelines for filming women's bodies. The two stories answer each other.
Courtney Dauwalter breaks her own Hardrock 100 course record while sick on the trail, and Ludo Pommeret wins his third straight at age 50. Eliud Kipchoge’s seven continent world tour rolls through Brazil. Emmanuel Wanyonyi breaks a 1K world record that stood since 1999. Barkley founder Laz Lake voids two backyard ultra world records. And Jessy went down a Strava rabbit hole to find out which Tour de France riders and World Cup players actually run, including one stat about Lionel Messi that will change how you watch him.
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