FatMarathoner

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

The lightest racing shoe on the planet just changed hands. Adidas has held that benchmark with the Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 — a shoe that rewrote what a carbon racer could weigh. Mizuno just showed up in Berlin and took the number. The Mizuno Hyperwarp 96 weighs 96 grams in a men’s 27cm (approximately … Read more

Delhi’s biggest running event just named its most counterintuitive ambassador yet. A woman who races 400 metres in under 49 seconds — less than a single lap of a track — is now the public face of a 21-kilometre road race through the streets of the capital. And it makes complete sense. Procam International announced … Read more

For most of the last decade, the running shoe conversation has been about one thing: going faster. Carbon fibre plates, propulsive foams, aggressive rocker geometries. Every major brand was in an arms race to shave seconds off your 10K. ASICS just stepped off the racetrack entirely. Their newest shoe is called the GEL-SLOWCUSH. And that … Read more

One second. That’s the entire margin between Agnes Ngetich and a half marathon world record that had survived six years, two Olympic cycles and a field of the best women distance runners on the planet. She took it on Saturday in Copenhagen, and the manner of it tells you everything about what kind of athlete … Read more