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Hey runners, in today's newsletter, Jakob Ingebrigtsen picked up right where he left off.
Racing for the first time in 11 months after Achilles surgery, the Norwegian closed his last lap in a blazing time to win a fourth European 5,000m title on the opening night in Birmingham. We've got every track result from day one.
Elsewhere, Nairobi has bid to host the 2029 World Championships, which would be Africa's first, and Chinese runner Li Shuangyong just ran a marathon a day for 372 straight days. He's already aiming for more.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: why you don't need motivation to run, 13 tips for post-marathon recovery, and how to calculate your heart rate zones.
Whatever you're training for this fall, your hydration strategy isn't something you figure out at the start line - it's something you bake into your long runs over the next couple of months.
LMNT is the zero-sugar electrolyte mix that performance-team athletes use through training and race day. Each stick: 1,000mg sodium, 200mg potassium, 60mg magnesium. No sugar, no artificial colors. The same formula dozens of endurance athletes, Olympians, and pro sports teams Stay Salty with.
Our team always stick to the mantra: practice with what you'll race with. Training your body and gut on the same electrolytes you'll use on race day is the difference between skipping past the wall and hitting it hard.
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In this episode of For Better or For Worse, Alex walks Alexis through the 10-week beginner 5K training plan he built her from scratch. Alexis pushes back on almost all of it. They then debate whether women handle pain differently than men, Alex recounts a terrifying anaphylactic ER story, and they close out with a heated take on race bandits after a viral clip of a 70-year-old runner getting taken down by a race marshal in Mexico.
Li Shuangyong, 41, ran a daily marathon for 372 days, a year and a week, across more than 300 Chinese cities. Guinness made it official on Sunday, and he is already aiming for 520.
Jonah Koech, 29, accepted a three-year suspension after his athlete biological passport showed signs of blood doping, and USADA stripped the 1,500m title he won at the 2025 U.S. Championships.
The Kenyan capital is up against London, Rome and Munich, with a decision expected in September. A Nairobi win would put the World Athletics Championships in Africa for the first time, and at altitude.
The Norwegian, racing for the first time in 11 months after Achilles surgery, closed the last lap in 54.94 to win in 13:15.29, holding off Germany's Florian Bremm.
Amy Hunt won 100m gold, Jakob Ingebrigtsen kicked to the 5000m title, and Norway took the mixed 4x400m relay on the opening night in Birmingham. Here are the full fields from every track final, with field, combined, and para events left out.
Max Jolliffe is one of the most followed ultrarunners on the internet, and in July 2026 he became the fastest man in the 49-year history of Badwater 135, finishing Death Valley's brutal 135-mile course (ending with a 12-mile climb up Mount Whitney Portal Road, in temperatures hitting 118°F) in 20 hours 53 minutes, on his very first attempt. In this episode, Michael talks to Max about his journey from Newport Beach surf-and-skate culture to ultrarunning champion, the science behind his heat training, his race-day battle for the lead at Badwater, how he balances content creation with elite racing, and why Cocodona has become his "white whale."
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