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Hey runners, in today's newsletter, the super shoe arms race just escalated again.
Nike has unveiled the Apex, a zero-drop racer stacking 40mm under both heel and forefoot, landing days after the Adidas Pro Evo 3 swept every podium spot in Berlin. At the same time, two elite marathoners sidelined by injury have reopened the debate over whether super shoes are actually hurting runners.
Elsewhere, Nike expects its sales to shrink this fiscal year and has launched a restructuring it says will save $2.5 billion. The 2027 Berlin Marathon lottery is open until November 12, with Generalireplacing BMW as title sponsor after a 16-year run that produced six world records. And the 2027 London Marathon will double as Britain's trial for both Beijing and Los Angeles.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: jogging vs running, ways to make your runs feel easier, and six reasons every runner should cross-train.
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Nike has announced three new race day shoes, led by the Nike Apex: a zero drop super shoe with a full 40mm stack in both the heel and the forefoot, built to take on the Adidas Adios Pro Evo 3. Alex Cyr and Michael Doyle of Marathon Handbook break down the Apex, the Alphafly 4 and the $145 Swooshfly, the most affordable super shoe yet from a major running brand.
Nike now forecasts a high-single-digit drop in revenue through May 2027 and has launched Pace, a restructuring it says will save $2.5 billion by fiscal 2031. First-quarter sales fell 4 percent to $11.2 billion.
Shannon-Leigh Litt says she may try for it before the end of the year, and every run in her 1,000-day streak was already almost 9K longer than a marathon.
The two-time Olympian signed up only a few days before the race and ran 4:23 in Toronto on Sunday, eight days after her 4:29.51 placed her eighth at the World Road Running Championships in Copenhagen.
The 41-year-old will mentor the first Refugee Olympic Team to compete at a Youth Olympics when the Games open in Senegal on Oct. 31, less than three weeks after his next marathon in Melbourne.
Cheboi, the 2023 champion, beat Gizealew Ayana by four seconds in Ottawa in May and meets him again on Oct. 18, while Ketema's 2:21:52 leaves her 68 seconds off the women's course record.
The ninth edition starts at 7:30 a.m. on South Broadway, where runners have 11 hours to cover 31 miles and eat at nine Taco Bells, in a race that had only 40 starters three years ago.
Running every day might boost your mileage — but without cross-training, it can also lead to burnout, injury, and plateaus. Here’s why mixing it up makes you stronger, faster, and more resilient.
The first two British men and women home next April will be picked for Beijing if they hold a qualifying time, and each winner gets a provisional place for Los Angeles. Only one Briton has ever run faster than the men's standard.
There are 45,000 places for the Sept. 19, 2027 race, which gives each applicant roughly a one-in-four chance, and the first names drawn will hear on Oct. 5.
The insurer's name goes on the race from Sept. 26, 2027, closing a 16-year run under BMW in which six marathon world records were set on the Berlin course.
Two of the world's fastest marathoners were sidelined by injury. Researchers are split on whether their shoes played a part, and on what you should wear.
Five years of B.A.A. acceptance data show a cutoff that keeps climbing on tighter standards, a shrinking share of first-timers and a field increasingly qualified at Boston itself.
In this week's episode of The Running Story, who cover how Tigst Assefa was on world record pace at the 2026 Berlin Marathon until the final 2K. Assefa still won in a course record of 2:11:04, even though she appeared to suffer an Achilles injury around 40K. Early reports suggest a partial tear. Guye Adola won the men's race in 2:02:50, his first personal best in almost ten years. We also cover Josh Kerr's 1,000m time trial at altitude in Albuquerque, which came within 0.83 seconds of Emmanuel Wanyonyi's world record before the Ultimate Championship.
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