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Hey runners, in today's newsletter, Michael Johnson said the athletes were paid. They say otherwise.
Matthew Hudson-Smith, Josh Kerr and others are still owed six-figure sums by the collapsed Grand Slam Track, with around $11 million reportedly sitting with an outside firm.
Elsewhere, UTMB returns to Chamonix on August 28 with the deepest field in years, though its fastest woman is missing. Berlin's elite field goes 25 deep under 2:08.
Ballot season is also in full swing: Tokyo 2027 entry is open with a 10% acceptance rate, and Prague's first half-marathon ballot pulled 70,000 applications in three weeks.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: the science of runner's high, 10 proven pre-race meals, and how to find time to run when life is packed.
The general lottery for the March 7, 2027 race runs through Aug. 28. Around 300,000 runners typically apply for roughly 30,000 ballot places, and they are not all drawing from the same pool.
The organizer posted the full men's and women's lists on Instagram, 67 runners for Sept. 27. Sabastian Sawe and Tigst Assefa lead, and an Olympic 10,000m champion sits eighth among the men.
Backyard ultra's reigning world champion will try to run 168 laps in seven straight days at a charity event in Western Australia, a distance no sanctioned race could record.
The Norwegian was expected back at Zurich on Aug. 27, but he will now open his Diamond League return four days sooner, running the 1,500m at Silesia on Aug. 23, on the track where he set a world record two years ago.
Amy Hunt completed the sprint double with 200m gold, Mark English won an Irish 800m title, and Gesa Felicitas Krause took the steeplechase on the fourth night in Birmingham.
Fuel your race the right way with simple, tested meal ideas—plus expert tips on timing, digestion, and what to avoid so you feel strong, energized, and ready to perform.
Fire scrapped the Fat Dog 120 and Colorado's Ouray 100 this summer, and even the races that survived are running on rerouted courses and air-quality thresholds.
The 100 mm commemorative medal, about 3.9 inches across, goes to every finisher of the March 7 race. It is likely to be larger than the medal hung on the winner, whose podium version has measured 65 mm for the past two years.
UTMB's World Series Finals return to Chamonix on Friday, Aug. 28, with Kilian Jornet, Jim Walmsley and Courtney Dauwalter all entered. The one name absent belongs to the woman who holds the course record.
Matthew Hudson-Smith, Josh Kerr and other athletes are still owed six-figure sums by the collapsed track league. Michael Johnson said Saturday they had been paid; the athletes and their representatives say the money has not arrived, and about $11 million sits with an outside firm.
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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