FatMarathoner

Three years in, the Tawang Marathon has a new face. When a race gets a full identity refresh — new logo, new mascot, a redesigned finisher medal and a new race jersey — it is not routine event housekeeping. It means the people running it have decided the original version was a proof of concept, … Read more

Illustrative image. AI generated visual depicting a marathon hydration area and is not an actual photograph from the Wipro Bengaluru Marathon 2026. Updated: 28 September 2026 NEB Sports has issued an official apology across its social media channels acknowledging that the event “fell short of the experience and care that participants deserved”. The organisers took … Read more

Illustrative image created for FatMarathoner. Priyanka Goswami was disqualified during the Asian Games race walking event. Marathon racewalking is an entirely different beast from standard road running. Pushing your body across 42.195 kilometers is grueling enough but doing it while judges scrutinize the exact angle of your knee joint requires near superhuman precision. Indian athlete … Read more

Tigst Assefa came back to Berlin with unfinished business and left with a third title — and a suspected Achilles tendon injury that cut short what was shaping up to be one of the greatest performances in women’s marathon history. Guye Adola, the quiet favourite nobody fully backed after Sabastian Sawe’s withdrawal, won the men’s … Read more

At five in the morning in Bekoji, a small town in Ethiopia’s Arsi highlands, the roads are already moving. Not with cars. With runners. Young men and women in mismatched kit, moving in tight packs through cold mountain air, climbing dirt roads that disappear into eucalyptus forest. No GPS watches beeping splits. No foam rollers … Read more

A carbon-plated marathon race shoe for ₹19,999. The Brooks Ghost 17 on Amazon India for ₹26,709. If that sentence made you stop mid-scroll, you’re not alone. Decathlon has formally launched Kiprun in India as a dedicated running sub-brand, and the pricing it has brought along is the most disruptive thing to happen to the Indian … Read more

Image: Nagoya’s broad city-centre boulevards formed the backdrop for the men’s marathon race walk at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Photo: Hoejin Iwai / Unsplash The marathon race walk is so new it barely has a history. Hayato Katsuki is making sure it starts with his name at the top. Japan’s 35-year-old race walking veteran … Read more

Photo: Athletics Federation of India / @afiindia on X Sawan Barwal had run exactly one competitive marathon in his life when India selected him for the Asian Games. On Saturday morning in Nagoya, he ran his second. He came home with a silver medal, a new national record of 2:11:37 and the distinction of ending … Read more

Here is something that rarely happens in Indian running: a major global brand builds a programme specifically for the runners who are fast but not famous. Not the elites who already have sponsors. Not the beginners who just want to finish. The 3:15 to 4:00 crowd — people who train seriously, race hard and then … Read more

The ASICS SONICBLAST had a reputation problem from day one. When it arrived in September 2025 alongside the MEGABLAST, the running world was genuinely confused about what it was for. A plated super trainer at 45mm of stack, stiff through the midfoot, narrow in the toe box and heavier than most competitors at its price … Read more