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🗓️ Race Date: Sunday, 16 May 2027 📍 Location: San Francisco, California, USA 📏 Distances: 12K (7.46 miles) | 15K Breakers Bonus (9.32 miles) 🏁 Start: Howard St & Fremont St, downtown San Francisco (near Embarcadero) — first wave 8:00 AM 🏆 Finish: 1000 Great Highway, Ocean Beach, SF ⏱️ Time Limit: Course cut-off 12:30 … Read more
The world’s biggest ultramarathon is heading for its 100th birthday with no governing body willing to sanction it. That situation, remarkable for any race of this scale, connects directly to a year of governance breakdown at Athletics South Africa and a credit card that a disciplinary panel concluded was treated like a personal expense account. … Read more
The Wanda Diamond League published its full 2027 discipline allocation this month and for anyone who tracks the 800m through the 5,000m, the calendar now has a second story running underneath every race. The season ends in Zurich on August 25 and 26. The World Athletics Championships in Beijing open September 10. That is 15 … Read more
📅 Date: 9 May 2027 (TBC — not yet confirmed by organisers; historical pattern is first or second Sunday of May) 📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain 🏃 Distance: 10km road, certified by the Catalan Athletics Federation 🚦 Start: Avinguda Diagonal 617, 9:00 AM 🏁 Finish: Plaça Catalunya — finish line closes 12:00 noon 💰 Entry fee: … Read more
Two shoes. Same family. Same stack height. A name so similar that even experienced runners double-check the product page twice. The confusion between the Puma Deviate Nitro 4 and the Puma Deviate Pure Nitro isn’t a branding problem. It’s structural. Puma built these two shoes to look nearly identical and priced them just ₹2,000 apart … Read more
📅 Race Date: Saturday, 31 October 2026 ⏰ Start Time: 6:00 AM (West Africa Time, UTC+1) 📍 Start: Millennium Park, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria 🏁 Finish: Marina Leisure Resort, Calabar 📏 Distances: 21.1 km Half Marathon | 10 km Fun Run | 5 km Fitness Walk 🏅 Edition: 4th (inaugural 2021) 💰 Prize Pool: … Read more
Hero image: Leonard Kipkoech Langat at the 2016 Frankfurt Marathon. Photo: JeLuF, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Leonard Langat made history in Toronto on Sunday. The Kenyan crossed the line in 2:06:51 to become the TCS Toronto Waterfront Marathon’s first back-to-back champion since Philemon Rono did it in 2017, and his winning time was … Read more
Illustrative image of runners in Dubai’s financial district, representing the team spirit of the DIFC Corporate Relay. 🗓️ Race Date: Thursday, 26 November 2026 📍 Location: Under The Gate, DIFC, Dubai, UAE 👥 Format: Team relay — 10 runners per team, 1.5 km per leg 🏃 Total Distance: 15 km per team (10 × 1.5 … Read more
Race at a Glance Race: 2026 Columbus Marathon Date: October 18, 2026 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA Distance: 26.2 miles (full marathon) Men’s Winner: Nick Doud — 2:15:08 Women’s Winner: Ashton Swinford — 2:38:04 Total Finishers: 959 (753 men, 206 women) Results: Official results via MTEC Results Neither winner led at the halfway mark. That’s the … Read more
Greg Meyer’s name has sat at the top of the Detroit Free Press Marathon record books since 1980. Forty-six years. Nobody in the modern era of marathon running — carbon plates, altitude camps, sub-threshold training science, all of it — had touched his 2:13:07 on this course. On Sunday morning, a 32-year-old from Ferndale, Michigan … Read more