Run the World · Marathons, Guides & Gear for Every Runner
For five years, serious runners wrote Fitbit off. Step counters. Sleep trackers. Gifts people return at Christmas. If you were actually training, you bought a Garmin. That calculus just got harder to justify. Google’s new Fitbit Edge arrives with built-in precision GPS, an ECG app, blood pressure trend monitoring, a seven-day battery and a $179.99 … Read more
📅 Date: Sunday, 3 October 2027 📍 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK 📏 Distance: Half Marathon — 13.1 miles / 21.1 km 🏁 Start: Cardiff Castle, Castle Street, Cardiff CF10 🏅 Finish: King Edward VII Avenue, Civic Centre, Cardiff ⏱️ Start times: 9:50am wheelchair · 10:00am elite and fast pens · 10:10am remaining pens ⏳ Cut-off: … Read more
Nike has sponsored the Chicago Marathon since 2008. Its logo is on the finish arch, the medals and the official race kits. On Sunday, Adidas swept both wins and took three of the six podium places. The shoe race at the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon told a more interesting story than the one … Read more
Chicago Marathon 2026 — Results at a Glance Race date: Sunday, October 11, 2026 — Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois Men’s winner: Amos Kipruto, Kenya — 2:01:09 (new personal best) Women’s winner: Hawi Feysa, Ethiopia — 2:13:33 (defends title; personal best) Men’s course record: 2:00:35 — Kelvin Kiptum (2023) — stood Women’s course record: 2:09:56 — … Read more
📅 Race Dates: Friday 2 July + Saturday 3 July 2027 📍 Location: Mattertal, Valais, Switzerland 🏁 Marathon Start: St. Niklaus — 1,116m above sea level 🏆 Marathon Finish: Riffelberg — 2,585m above sea level ⛰️ Distances: Ultra 45.8 km | Marathon 42.195 km | Half Marathon 21.1 km | TOP20RUN 22 km | Hörnli … Read more
🏔️ Quick Facts — Antarctic Ice Marathon 2026 Race Date13 December 2026 Edition21st (since 2005/2006) LocationUnion Glacier, Antarctica (80°S) DistancesMarathon (42.195km) & Half Marathon (21.1km) Entry FeeUSD $22,500 (all-inclusive) RegistrationOpen — very limited spots (aircraft capacity) Cutoff Times10 hrs (marathon) · 6 hrs (half) Temperature-10°C to -20°C (windchill to -40°C) Altitude700m above sea level OrganiserRunbuk … Read more
Call it a retirement tour. That was the easy read. Sixteen in Cape Town. Twelfth in Porto Alegre. Polite finishes, roaring crowds, the gospel of running spreading across the continents. Then Eliud Kipchoge arrived in Melbourne and broke the course record. The 41-year-old Kenyan won the Nike Melbourne Marathon on Sunday in 2:09:10, taking two … Read more
Big Sur International Marathon 2027 — Quick Facts 📅 Race date: Sunday, April 25, 2027 🏃 Distance: 26.2 miles — point-to-point, Big Sur to Carmel 📍 Start: Big Sur Station, Big Sur, CA | Finish: Rio Road, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA ⏰ Start time: 6:45 AM PDT ⏱️ Time limit: 6 hours (13:45/mile pace). Course closes 1:00 … Read more
Most GPS watches are built around a compromise: performance features or battery life. Garmin decided years ago that the Enduro line would refuse that trade-off entirely. The Garmin Enduro 4, which went on sale on October 9, 2026, is the clearest expression of that philosophy yet. A watch that can run 320 hours of solar-assisted … Read more
Mizuno’s first Hyperwarp Pure was one of the most talked-about super shoes of early 2026. It was ferociously fast, obscenely light and, for most runners, genuinely too demanding to enjoy. The Pure 2 is Mizuno’s answer to that feedback: same speed, more shoe. Announced on October 8 via an official Mizuno press release, the Hyperwarp … Read more