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Every year at this time of year, Goa does something that does not fit its reputation. The beach state best known for easy mornings and late sunsets trades that identity, briefly, for transition zones and pre-dawn alarms. A stretch of National Highway 66 gets sealed off before sunrise so cyclists can grind a 90km loop … Read more

Image: Garmin Argos launched its early Black Friday Garmin deals this week and most of it is noise. One watch is not. The Garmin Forerunner 165 is sitting at £149.99 in Mist Grey right now and that is the lowest price we have found for it anywhere in the UK. The remaining three watches in … Read more

Photo: New York Road Runners Most runners cross the finish line of the New York City Marathon and immediately start thinking about sitting down. This year, the smarter move is to keep your medal handy a little longer. The TCS New York City Marathon 2026 is this Sunday, November 1, and businesses across the city … Read more

Nike has been selling running shoes in India for decades. It has never built one here. Until now. The Nike Vegam Run drops on November 1, and it is not a global model tweaked for the Indian market. Nike says it shaped this shoe from scratch alongside Indian runners, moved from design brief to confirmed … Read more

The men’s U18 200m national record had stood for three years. On Tuesday at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, Neil Samraj R from Tamil Nadu erased it so convincingly that even the conversation around Indian junior sprinting feels different now. Samraj clocked 21.03 seconds to win gold at the 41st National Junior Athletics Championships, going … Read more

A Reddit post from r/IndianRunningshoes went up this week asking what every runner staring at a 62% discount should be asking: is this real, or should I be worried? The post flagged the ASICS GT-2000 14 being sold on Flipkart at ₹5,291 through a seller called HSAtlastradeFashion, compared to ₹11,199 from ASICSINDIA on the very … Read more

Quick updates Race date: 25 October 2027 Distance: 21.1 km Total bibs: 25,000 Series: SuperHalfs Time qualification required: No Loyalty Phase (2026 runners only): 5 Nov (11:00 AM) to 9 Nov (10:59 AM) Public ballot window: 10 Nov (11:00 AM) to 16 Nov (10:59 AM) Draw: 17 November 2026 Results emailed: 18 November 2026 Ballot … Read more

The 13th-place finisher at the Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday just broke a world record that had stood for 35 years. By more than four minutes. Mark Kosgei Kiptoo of Kenya ran 2:15:24 at the Mainova Frankfurt Marathon, erasing the M50 marathon world record that South Africa’s Titus Mamabolo had held since 1991. While most of … Read more