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Habtom Samuel took 45 seconds off Lelisa Desisa's 2013 course record with 59:49, while Fentaye Belayneh won a third straight title by two seconds.
Rodrigue Kwizera won the Seville cross country in 27:36 to match Kenenisa Bekele's three titles, one second clear of Charles Kiboino Kiprono.
Matthew Ramsden recovered from a wrong turn near the finish to win by two seconds, while Kate Axford won the women's race and Laura Muir finished fifth.
Seven-year-old Tom Black ran 1:39:48 on a hilly course, beating the age-seven mark on record by nearly four minutes and prompting fresh debate about youth distance running.
The Asics Gel-Nimbus 29 launches on 1 December at $170 with a new FF Luxe Plus midsole, reworked outsole geometry and a redesigned upper.
Preliminary figures show 61,146 finishers from 61,529 starters, 1,920 more than in 2025, with women making up about 47 per cent of the field.
The 24-year-old Bucknell graduate, running her first marathon for the Parkinson’s Foundation, collapsed in Central Park on 1 November; her family says the cause was rhabdomyolysis.
Naples, Warsaw, Belgrade, Vienna, Riga and Stockholm form a new Europa series for 2027, alongside the six Originals from Lisbon to Valencia.
Yomif Kejelcha, owner of a 1:59:41 debut, headlines the 6 December race, with Fotyen Tesfay leading a women’s field that includes Emily Sisson and defending champion Joyciline Jepkosgei.
Jim Walmsley won the 105k at China’s Tsaigu Trail, while Rob Molke and Heather Jackson prevailed at Javelina by 87 and 55 seconds respectively.
Reebok’s $220 SpeedShifter marks a return to racing, while Puma’s 57mm Fast-RB Nitro Elite 2 sits outside the competition stack limit.
A study of more than 5,000 recreational runners suggests the biggest injury signal is a single run far longer than any in the previous month, not weekly workload.
Sweden’s Andreas Almgren won in 2:06:01 on his debut, while Sheila Chepkirui beat Jessica Mcclain by six seconds in 2:24:36.
The 2024 European 1500m champion and Irish record holder died on 1 November following a public battle with cancer.
Chief executive Hugh Brasher says "all things are on the table" as organisers consult elite athletes, with the format due to be confirmed in January.
The new department, led by Jakob Larsen, will oversee road, cross country, trail and mountain running, the Label Road Races programme and the new RUN X treadmill championship.
The AIU has handed the Ethiopian a four-year ban for EPO and a consecutive four-year ban for tampering after medical paperwork he submitted was found to be false.
Jirata Dinki won the Frankfurt Marathon in 2:05:26, with European champion Amanal Petros second in 2:05:46 and Germany’s Blanka Dörfel running 2:20:46 on her debut behind Zeineba Yimer.
Francesco Puppi won the 80km Grand Trail des Templiers in 6:32:20, while Martyna Młynarczyk took the women’s race in 7:41:18 in Millau.
Nike has unveiled the Vegam Run, its first running shoe designed specifically for India, priced at ₹3,795 (about $40) and on sale via Flipkart from 1 November.
Adidas restocked the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 and Nike widened the Alphafly 4 release on 29 October, and neither sold out on launch day.
Hellen Obiri and Benson Kipruto return to defend their titles in Sunday’s TCS New York City Marathon, with Sifan Hassan, Conner Mantz and marathon debutant Andreas Almgren among the leading challengers.
Elhousine Elazzaoui won the Golden Trail Series finale in South Korea to claim a third successive title, as Belgium’s Merijn Geerts and Ivo Steyaert broke the backyard ultra record with 124 yards.
Nike is reviving its Skylon running shoe line from the early 1990s, with a Volt mesh upper, a deeply grooved Air Zoom midsole and a wider palette of colours.
Cyclopark parkrun near Gravesend was cancelled at short notice after large planters were placed on a cycle path used by the course, with organisers now planning a redesigned route.
Jirata Dinki won the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon in 2:05:26 and Zeineba Yimer took the women's title in 2:19:45, in rain, wind and standing water.
Germany's Blanka Dörfel finished second in Frankfurt in 2:20:46, 61 seconds behind Zeineba Yimer, to break the German record for a marathon debut.
Kyle King won the 51st Marine Corps Marathon in 2:17:31, 1:23 faster than last year, while Kaylee Slade took the women's title in 2:44:34 in Arlington.
Abay Alemu Lesa won the Dublin Marathon in 2:10:28 and Zenebu Fikadu Jebesa in 2:24:26, while Judith Storm caught Sorcha Nic Dhómhnaill in the last 400m for the Irish title.
Caitlin McGinley (2:36:08) and Spencer Friske (2:15:05) won the Baystate Marathon inside the 2028 Trials standards, but USATF says the race lacked the sanction needed for the marks to count.
BYU moved to No. 1 in the coaches' poll after beating NC State 84-88 at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, despite racing without Jane Hedengren.
The Tokyo 800m champion announced on Instagram that she and her husband are expecting their first child, having not raced at all in 2026.
The race expects more than 30,000 runners and 100,000 spectators on Sunday, with the Kids Run and an Armed Forces Marathon Championships ceremony on Saturday.
Hugo Deck won the Diagonale des Fous in 22:54:19 and Ruth Croft took the women's race in 27:13:23, both on their first start at La Réunion.
Both Chicago winners wore the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3, but Nike shoes made up six of the top ten finishers.
Tokyo's 2027 champions will each earn $170,000, the biggest winner's prize of any Abbott World Marathon Major, in a record field of 40,000.
Tamirat Tola won the Beijing Marathon in a course record 2:03:10, with Muktar Edris and Adane Kebede Gebre also inside the old mark.
Hannah Irwin and Kadar Omar won the AJ Bell Great South Run in Portsmouth, with Irwin holding off defending champion Verity Ockenden by three seconds.
Francesco Puppi won the 80km Grand Trail des Templiers in 6:32:20 and Martyna Młynarczyk took the women's title in 7:41:18 on her first visit to Millau.
Amos Kipruto won the Chicago Marathon in a personal best of 2:01:09, while Hawi Feysa retained the women's title in 2:13:33.
Lemi Berhanu ran a 2:03:33 personal best to win by six seconds, while Buze Diriba broke the women's course record with 2:16:12 in steady rain.
Kenya's Charles Matata won in 58:52 to break the event record by a second, while 19-year-old Wudinesh Alemu upset the favourites in the women's race.
Leonard Langat and Leah Jeruto led a Kenyan sweep of the Toronto titles, while Enock Onchari ran 2:04:55 in Ljubljana on a busy marathon Sunday.
The 2027 Wanda Diamond League season opens in Doha on 7 May and ends with a two-day final in Zurich on 25-26 August, spanning 15 cities on four continents.
Catherine Debrunner ran 1:33:16 in Chicago to cut a minute from her own T54 marathon world record, while Marcel Hug won a seventh title in a course-record 1:21:34.
Asics has released the Gel-Slowcush, a $200 max-cushioned neutral trainer with 48mm of heel stack, aimed squarely at easy and recovery running rather than racing.
The Irish Life Dublin Marathon returns on 25 October with about 22,500 registered runners and a Road to 50 campaign that looks ahead to the race's 50th edition.
Harmanjot Singh, with a half marathon best of 1:01:46, leads a 42-strong Indian elite field at the 21st Delhi Half Marathon on 18 October.
Geofry Kipchumba and Aynalem Desta return as defending champions at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon on Sunday, with the men's course record of 2:03:30 in play.
Saucony's Endorphin Speed 6 went on sale on 15 October at $175, pairing a new PWRRUN PBX foam with a redesigned nylon plate.
A Loughborough survey of 570 performance-oriented parkrunners found no protective link for strength work, but coach-prescribed plans were associated with fewer injuries.
Destination Trail cancelled the 241.8-mile Moab 240 on Sunday after flooding, sleet and high winds hit the course, with about 70 people sheltering overnight at Bridger Jack.
World Athletics has named 20 nominees for its 2026 Athlete of the Year awards, with voting closing on 17 October and winners revealed in Monaco on 29 November.
Ruth Gitonga retained the women's World Cup title on countback without travelling to Canada, while Philemon Kiriago won the classic race and Nina Engelhard took both women's races.
Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon in a course record 2:09:10, finishing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on his debut in the city.
Jiaju Zhao set a new course record of 65:55:22, while Katharina Hartmuth cut more than 12 hours from her own women's record to finish third overall.
Ryan Sullivan ran 17:03:38 and Hannah Allgood 19:01:59 through heavy Colorado storms, before the race announced $100,000 winner prizes for 2027.
The TCS New York City Marathon on 1 November marks 50 years of the five-borough course, with Hellen Obiri, Sifan Hassan, Benson Kipruto and Conner Mantz leading the professional field.
Amanal Petros, Richard Ringer and Samuel Fitwi race a city marathon together for the first time at the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon on 25 October.
Yomif Kejelcha, who debuted in 1:59:41 in London, and Fotyen Tesfay (2:10:52) headline the elite field for the Valencia Marathon on 6 December.
Adidas says the 97g Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 improves running economy by 1.6%, with a wider release planned for the autumn marathon season.
Chicago registered more than 55,000 runners, London recorded 59,830 finishers and Sydney applications rose 56 per cent, underlining the global appetite for marathons.
Clayton Young finished seventh in a personal best 2:05:23 as the top American in Chicago, with Charles Hicks and Galen Rupp inside 2:07, while Emma Grace Hurley ran 2:20:47 on debut.
Martin Musau won the EDP Lisbon Marathon in a personal best 2:08:07, while Meskerem Mamo took the women's race on her marathon debut in 2:28:04 as Ethiopia swept the top five.
Judy Chepkoech edged Betty Kipkore by one-tenth of a second at the Nuttycombe Wisconsin Invitational, while Meshack Kipruto won the men's race and West Virginia and New Mexico won the team titles.
Rachael Rudel won the 50th running of the Boston 10K for Women in 31:12, the only runner under 32 minutes and just seven seconds off Emily Sisson's course record.
Amos Kipruto broke away from defending champion Jacob Kiplimo after 30km to win in 2:01:09, while Hawi Feysa outkicked Sharon Lokedi to retain the women's title in 2:13:33.
Eliud Kipchoge broke away in the final 10km to win the Nike Melbourne Marathon in a course-record 2:09:10, his 17th career marathon victory and first since Berlin 2023.
Cody Poskin and Nichole Abma won the 100 miles at Kodiak, while course records fell at the Yeti 100 and in the Kodiak 50K on a busy weekend of US ultrarunning.
The B.A.A. has set a 5:17 cut-off for the 131st Boston Marathon, with a new random draw adding 1,000 places for qualifiers who missed out.
The 13th HOKA Kodiak Ultra Marathons by UTMB reaches its finish this weekend at Big Bear Lake, with 210 places at the 2027 UTMB World Series Finals at stake.
Nike's Alphafly 4 costs $25 less than its predecessor and pairs a lighter ZoomX LT foam with a wider Flyplate, ahead of a broader release on 29 October.
Jacob Kiplimo defends his Chicago title as the clear favourite on Sunday, with Amos Kipruto and a deep chasing pack behind him and the American record also in play.
Brigid Kosgei, Sharon Lokedi and defending champion Hawi Feysa lead a fast women's field in Chicago, with Emma Grace Hurley making her marathon debut.
The Javelina Jundred returns to McDowell Mountain Regional Park on 31 October as a Western States golden ticket race, with last year's course records as the targets to beat.
Megan Eckert covered 636.482 miles at the GOMU 6-Day World Championship in Balatonfüred, breaking her own women's record and the overall American mark.
Joyciline Jepkosgei ran 1:05:40 to break Edith Chelimo's 2017 course record, and Gideon Kiprotich won the men's race in 59:34 in Cardiff.
Germany's three fastest marathoners, Petros, Fitwi and Ringer, will race Frankfurt together for the first time on 25 October.
Lucy Gossage finished the 268-mile Pennine Way in 2 days, 22 hours and 47 minutes, setting a new women's supported FKT.
Geoffrey Kipchumba will try to beat his own 2:03:30 course record in a field of ten sub-2:05 men at the TCS Amsterdam Marathon on 18 October.
The Endorphin Speed 6 launches on 15 October at $175 with a new PWRRUN PBX midsole and a redesigned nylon plate.
Mild forecast conditions help, but the arithmetic points to the American record, not the world record, as the realistic target in Chicago.
Bernard Kiprop Koech ran 2:06:09 and Jackline Chepngeno 2:21:33 to rewrite both course records at a record-sized Cologne Marathon.
Anna Dalton took nine minutes off the Perpetua Coast 50k course record and Dylan Flewelling won the men's national title in 3:50.
Every podium finisher at the 2026 Berlin Marathon raced in the adidas Adios Pro Evo 3, a result that may be unmatched at a World Marathon Major.
Alexa Romano and Cristofer Clemente won the 73-mile Chihuahua by UTMB, while Lucinda Kolpa and Mason Coppi won the Cirque Series finale on Mount Baldy.
Lilian Chebii ran 2:25:26 to break a course record that had stood since 2001, while Victor Shitsama won the men's race in 2:12:20.
Jamie Crowe won the half marathon in 1:03:27 and Katrina Ballantyne in 1:13:33 as the Glasgow event attracted its largest ever field.
A reporter's trip through Ball State's Human Performance Lab highlights the gains marathon training brings and the recovery basics that matter most.
Aidan Troutner won the men's title in 27:40, one second clear of Dillon Maggard, while Emily Venters finished 13 seconds short of the women-only American record.
Aurélien Dunand-Pallaz traversed Corsica's 166km GR20 from Calenzana to Conca in 27:29, 2 hours 17 minutes faster than D'Haene's July record.
Joe McConaughy covered the roughly 211-mile John Muir Trail in 2 days, 16 hours and 15 seconds with an eight-person crew.
World champion Victor Kiplangat meets course-record holder Barnaba Kipkoech and Bernard Koech in Cologne, while defending champion Fantu Shugi leads the women's field.
Eliud Kipchoge starts the Nike Melbourne Marathon on 11 October with a flatter, less twisty course, a sold-out marathon and half marathon, and a festival of some 66,000 entries.
A study of 2.7 million performances at six major marathons links nitrogen dioxide to slower finishing times, with recreational runners affected far more than elites.
Japanese researchers found that ten minutes of very slow treadmill running improved mood, alertness and prefrontal brain activity in 24 young adults.
Running USA's 2026 Global Runner Survey, backed by ACTIVE Network and Wahoo, polled more than 11,700 runners on events, spending, technology and belonging.
Barwal's 2:11:37 behind Japan's Ichitaka Yamashita lowered his own national record and ended a wait stretching back to 1982.
Spain edged Italy by 22 points across the Vertical, SkyUltra and Sky races on La Gomera, with Norway's Shangave Balendran winning the women's SkyUltra.
Tom Evans and Ruth Croft face Reunion specialists Jean-Philippe Tschumi and Manon Bohard over a 180km course with 10,200m of climbing, starting on 15 October.
Tigst Assefa underwent surgery in Munich after finishing Berlin in 2:11:04 on a ruptured Achilles, with her management targeting a London return in April 2027.
Tigst Assefa underwent surgery in Munich after finishing Berlin in 2:11:04 on a ruptured Achilles, with her management targeting a London return in April 2027.
Fu Chao-hsuan's 2.25m in Aichi-Nagoya won Taiwan's first men's athletics gold at the Asian Games since 1966.
Runna has partnered with Loughborough University's Dr Richard Blagrove to review how its plans handle progression, intensity and recovery after physiotherapists reported injuries.
Figures for the 29-30 August weekend show 379,000 adult parkrunners, 36,000 juniors and 52,000 volunteers worldwide, with UK numbers down 12 per cent on the previous week.
Tamás Bódis won the 246km Athens-to-Sparta race in 19:40:51, taking around 14 minutes off the course record.
Sidney Noble ran 17:39:23 and Kristin Johnson 18:50:37 on a course that finished in Garden City, Utah, rather than Fish Haven, Idaho.
Puripol Boonson won Thailand's first Asian Games 100m title since 1978 in 9.90, while 17-year-old Chen Yujie ran 11.06.
Marcel Hug arrives with four consecutive Chicago wins and faces Daniel Romanchuk, with the women's field led by McFadden, Schär and Debrunner.
Guye Adola and Tigst Assefa won a Berlin Marathon in which Ethiopian runners filled five of the top ten places in both races.
Shanti Pereira ran 22.78 seconds to beat Chen Yujie and become the first woman to win consecutive Asian Games 200m titles.
A sold-out, record field of 150 runners tackled the Cowboy 200 across Nebraska this weekend, up from 60 entrants in the race's first year.
Kith and On have launched the K-Tech 3, a lifestyle-only shoe built on On's Cloudzone 99 platform, alongside fresh colourways of the K-Tech 1 and 2.
A study of 36 ultra-trail runners found that downhill interval training and a more compact gait pattern reduced the muscle damage caused by a fast descent.
🏆 BRONZE FOR HARITA BHADRA 🇮🇳⚡ Women's 200m FINAL | #AsianGames2026 ⏱️ 23.20s, BRONZE 🏆 WON BY ONE HUNDREDTH — she held off Japan's Abigeirufuka Ido (23.21) in a photo finish, by 0.01s. #TeamIndia #IndianAthletics #Nagoya2026
— All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) September 27, 2026
Asian Games 2026 | Athletics Men's 200m – Final Animesh Kujur (TOPS Development Athlete) clocked 20.80s to finish 5th in a competitive Men's 200m final, a step forward from India's 6th-place finish in the previous edition. #Cheer4Bharat #AsianGames2026 #TeamIndia
— SAI Media (@Media_SAI) September 27, 2026
Tigst Assefa broke clear before 10km in Berlin while four men shared the pace through 15km on a cool, still morning.
Yasmina Toxanbayeva led a seven-strong field from the front to win the inaugural event in 3:22:22.
Nike's marathon racer goes on general sale five per cent lighter and with ten per cent more claimed energy return.
A study of three Japanese marathons found extreme heat erased much of the fast runners' advantage.
UTMB's Riviera stop introduces a dusk-to-night 50K into an illuminated Nice finish.
🚨 YASMINA TOXANBAYEVA WINS RACE WALK MARATHON ON DEBUT! Kazakhstan’s Yasmina Toxanbayeva clinched the women’s marathon race walk title at the Asian Games 2026, clocking 3:22:20/22. Interestingly, this was her first-ever full marathon race walk.
— Athletics Nippon Info Service (@nnis_sports) September 27, 2026
Favourable weather and male pacers give Assefa her best shot at a PB since 2023, while eight of the men's nine fastest entrants are Ethiopian.
A new one-pull lacing system and a taller stack refine the road-to-gravel hybrid without touching the outsole that made it work.
Three hundred runners are still moving through the Bear River Range as the race's 36-hour cutoff tests a field spread across two nights on course.
A model trained on 643 marathoners predicted injury weeks well overall, but failed to usefully flag risk before a runner felt any pain.
Bahrain's mixed 4x400m quartet ran a Games record 3:12.87 in Nagoya, while Seema Kumari's 10,000m bronze gave India its first medal in the event in 16 years.
Registration has closed on 319 starters from more than 40 countries for Saturday's 07:00 start beneath the Acropolis.
A September update brings climb alerts, an Adventure Journal timeline and power balance data to the Pace, Apex and Dura watches.
A study of 5,205 runners over 18 months found injuries follow a single session's training error, not gradual overuse.
The elite start is 07:45 in the UK on Sunday, with Assefa chasing the world record and no clear favourite in the men's race.
The 19-year-old Shi won by almost four and a half minutes as the Asian Games switched to the new half marathon distance.
Coros's best-built Pace watch costs £160 more than the Pace 4 and puts the brand closer to Garmin on price.
Dentis won in Poland at her eighth World Cup start of the year, and Finlay Grant finished second to lead three British men into the top ten.
An expert panel says HRV isn't a reliable measure of 'vagal tone' and that runners should compare readings with their own baseline, not with published norms.
The United States took both individual titles in Ames, beating world record holder Aleksandr Sorokin, while Britain lost the men's team race by 46 seconds.
Organisers added 16 names and lost six, bringing in a European record holder and losing last year's third-placed man.
Accessibility packs with guide tethers, high-visibility bibs and large-print course maps will go to 100 UK events later this year.
The trail brand becomes IRONMAN's footwear partner from 2027, takes Kona title rights and puts its name on every IRONMAN-owned run course.
Eight women in the elite field have run inside 2:20, and the two at the top of it have very different reasons to be in Berlin.
Seven days of competition across track, road and race walking begin on Wednesday, at the end of the most crowded season the sport has scheduled.
A race that began with 17 entrants now turns away more than 200 from a waiting list, and it closes the American hundred-mile season in autumn colour.
The second product from the Nike and Hyperice partnership arrives with a magnetic pod, an app and a price that buys most of a pair of racing shoes.
The finding is interesting, the sample is small, and the athletes were not runners — all three things are true at once.
The winner's reward at Frozen Head is not a trophy but a place on the start line of the 2027 Barkley Marathons.
Sawe's withdrawal has reshaped the men's race, leaving the fastest story in Berlin on the women's side.
The stiffness that makes a super-shoe fast on tarmac becomes a liability the moment the surface stops cooperating.
Classifying runners who are already injured is a different problem from predicting who will be, and the distinction matters.
The Kenyan broke clear after three kilometres and finished 50 seconds ahead, taking a second off a mark set in 2020.
The Swede lowered his own European record by 35 seconds and beat Nicholas Kipkorir by five.
The 21-year-old Eritrean answered the Norwegian and took the lead with eight seconds left.
Both winners finished more than an hour clear on a course that was wet for most of the night.
Five times the 2026 winner’s prize, funded by one sponsor, for two years only.
Andreas Almgren sets a European Record of 58:06 to win the World Road Running half marathon in Copenhagen! 2. Nicholas Kipkorir 58:11 3. Joshua Cheptegei 58:26 (PB)
— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) September 20, 2026
The Ethiopian's first race of the year comes in a men's field headed by Gabriel Geay, while Vainio is a late addition behind Tigst Assefa.
The women-only series brought seven events to StoneX Stadium, with $65,000 to every winner and a Norwegian record in the 400m.
The Colorado hundred pays seven deep, bars pacers in its prize-eligible division and has $100,000 winner's cheques coming in 2027.
A full-length carbon plate, a new ATPU foam and a 7.4oz claimed weight put Reebok into a category it has sat out for nine years.
The North American record holder could not run on land until mid-May, and now does two recovery runs a week at reduced body weight.
No lanes and no rounds: Nuguse, Ciattei, Farken, Heyward and Coscoran settle a world title on Saturday.
Leicester researchers tracked 2.7 million Majors finishes and found nitrogen dioxide moved the whole distribution.
A plated racer no longer means a flagship price, and the premium tier now has to sell foam rather than carbon.
Kackar drew 1,113 runners and Ultra-Trail Great Wall 7,300, both in only their second edition.
Kasarani will stage the first World Athletics Championships held on the African continent.
Ngetich brings a 1:03:04 Kenyan record to a half marathon that closes the Copenhagen weekend.
Podium finishers at Grindstone, the Julian Alps and Paraty take automatic places at UTMB, CCC or OCC.
The Clifton 11, Arahi 9, Challenger 8, Rincon 5 and Torrent 5 head to big-box shelves from early October.
Fifty medal events across seven days at Paloma Mizuho Stadium, with the marathons on 26 September.
The second session of the Ultimate Championship delivered the sprint titles, a Japanese javelin record and another round of six-figure cheques.
With the defending champion out injured, Berlin's men's race loses its world record storyline and becomes a straight contest for the win.
Mapping has long been the feature that separated premium multisport watches from mid-range running watches, and Coros has just moved it down a tier.
The finding runs against the intuition that injuries follow dramatic spikes in mileage, and it says as much about the metric as it does about the runners.
Six days, 330 kilometres and 24,000 metres of ascent around the Aosta Valley, with sleep treated as a tactical decision rather than a given.
The inaugural championship's opening session delivered six finals, two American hurdles titles and a pair of $150,000 paydays.
Mild conditions and a deep men's field give Sunday's 45th Great North Run its best shot in years at the 58:56 course record.
The final leg of the Grand Slam of Ultrarunning finishes on Saturday evening, with four other significant ultras running alongside it.
A titanium Pace 4 Pro arrives on 22 September, following the same playbook Coros used with the Pace Pro two years ago.
A tightly controlled study found a measurable metabolic advantage at 120g an hour, and gastrointestinal symptoms at every dose tested.
The inaugural three-night championship begins with the mixed 4x100m and packs six finals into a single three-hour session.
With the defending champion out injured, Berlin has assembled unusual depth behind him and a women's race headed by the course record holder.
Adidas has put its fifth-generation racer on the approved list with a launch timed to the Berlin Marathon, and the brief appears to be durability.
Thirty years of coaching orthodoxy rests on a single 1996 paper, and a new comparison suggests the correction it produced is too small.
One ordinary Saturday in September produced 27,000 new barcodes, and the junior network is now a third the size of the adult one.
World Athletics has built a televised programme around the day before competition, including a public lane selection for the 200m fields.
Three world titles across two days, all decided on flat city-centre loops that double as a mass-participation festival.
Suunto has put full offline mapping into a watch that undercuts every mapping rival, and the optical heart rate has held up in early testing.
A new 23.5km race at Suginohara opens the series’ first Japanese round and the run-in to a first Grand Finale in South Korea.
A survey-based study of parkrun participants found no protective association between strength work and running injuries — a finding that needs careful reading.
The inaugural Ultimate Championship opens at the Gyula Zsivotzky National Athletics Centre on Friday with 381 athletes from 65 federations and a record prize fund.
Alex Mutiso and Sheila Chepkirui defend their titles on Sunday as the world's biggest half marathon sends 63,000 runners from Newcastle to South Shields.
At 9.1oz and $170, the second-generation Pegasus Plus swaps the original's narrow fit for a wider last and adds a visible forefoot Air Zoom unit.
A field of 1,100, drawn from more than 1,900 pre-registrations across 86 countries, sets out from Courmayeur on Sunday for 330km and 24,000m of climbing.
NC State begins the season top of the Division I women's coaches' poll, with its entire scoring five back from a fourth title in five years.