Run the World — Marathons, Gear & Guide for Every Runner
At the 80-kilometer mark of the UTMB in Courmayeur the math simply stopped making sense. A painful sound foot and severe discomfort where carbon met residual limb had pushed a 39-year-old French runner to the absolute brink. He was 98 percent certain his race was over. But Julien Veysseyre did not drop out. He stepped … Read more
The African runners had won this race almost every year for two decades. Then a Peruvian waited until kilometre 30, opened his stride, and nobody went with him. Cristhian Pacheco, the two-time Pan American Games marathon champion, won the XLIII Telcel Mexico City Marathon on Sunday August 30 in 2:10:03, breaking the long run of … Read more
📅 Dates: 13–15 November 2026 📍 Location: Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong SAR 🏃 Distances: TL100 (104km) · TL50 (45km) · TL25 (27km) · TL15 (15km) ⛰️ Elevation gain: TL100: 4,500m+ · TL50: 2,500m+ · TL25: 1,100m+ · TL15: 500m+ ⏱️ Cutoff: TL100: 27 hours · TL25: 6 hours 🕢 TL100 start: Friday 13 … Read more
The defending champion finished sixth. Seven men broke the old course record. And a 46-year-old ran the race of her life from the front before the world’s best finally caught her. The TCS Sydney Marathon 2026 did not just produce fast times — it produced one of the deepest, most chaotic and most compelling Major … Read more
🏔️ Quick Facts 📅 Race date: Sunday, June 20, 2027 📍 Location: Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada 📏 Distances: Half Marathon (21.1 km) and 10K 🏁 Start: Bow Avenue at Buffalo Street, Banff | Finish: Banff Central Park ⏰ Start time: 9:00 am MDT — wave starts, 60 seconds apart; chip-timed from start mat 🏔️ … Read more
The biggest story at the 2026 BMW Berlin Marathon was never going to be the men’s race. Even before Sabastian Sawe pulled out, the real draw on 27 September was Tigst Assefa. She won here in 2023 in 2:11:53, a time so far ahead of the field it looked like a data entry error. Three … Read more
Photo: Li Hao / Global Times (via X/@globaltimesnews) 8.64 seconds. That is the number Tiangong Ultra left Beijing with on Wednesday night, winning the 100m final at the closing ceremony of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games. It is the fourth time this week the record fell at the same venue, in the same event, … Read more
Quick Facts 📅 Race Date: Saturday, 24 October 2026 📍 Location: Gyalwa Tsangyang Gyatso High Altitude Stadium, Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh ⛰️ Altitude: ~3,050 m (10,000 ft) above sea level — consistent throughout the course 🏃 Distances: Full Marathon (42.195 km) · Half Marathon (21.0975 km) · 10 km · 5 km 🕔 Flag-off Times: Full … Read more
📅 Date: Sunday, 20 September 2026 🏅 Edition: 41st | Organised by Carreras y Maratones Ñandú 📍 Start / Finish: Av. Figueroa Alcorta y Dorrego, Palermo, Buenos Aires ⏱️ Start time: 07:00 (staggered corrals from 06:57) | Race cutoff: 13:00 (6 hours) 📏 Distance: 42.195 km | Full marathon only 🌍 Race status: World Athletics … Read more
🗓️ Race Date — Sunday, 4 July 2027 📍 Location — Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe 🏁 Start & Finish — Baobab Primary School, Victoria Falls 🏃 Distances — Full 42.195km | Half 21.0975km | Team Relay (10.5km × 2) | Specially-Abled 18km | Fun Run ~7.5km ⏱️ Cut-off Time — 6 hours (full marathon) 📋 Registration … Read more