FatMarathoner

Six of the seven Abbott World Marathon Majors will hand you a paper cup and wave you on come race day. On October 11, Chicago becomes the exception. The Bank of America Chicago Marathon has confirmed it will offer on-course water refill stations for runners carrying their own bottles and flasks, a first for any … Read more

Illustrative representation of the Adidas Adizero Adios Pro 5. Image created for editorial purposes and not an actual product photograph. Adidas didn’t announce it. There was no press release, no teaser, no countdown. The Adizero Adios Pro 5 just appeared on World Athletics’ approved shoe list this week, cleared for road competition, with an availability … Read more

Garmin’s Q3 2026 update is live and rolling out to over a dozen watches as of September 1. Fall detection, a hands-free voice assistant and a smarter way to start workouts on the fly — there is real substance here. But the headline that matters most to a significant chunk of Garmin’s user base is … Read more

There is something darkly ironic about pollution season in north India. It arrives exactly when the running calendar fills up. October to January is when you train hardest, when the big city races are on and when the air across the Indo-Gangetic Plain is at its most dangerous. The weather finally cooperates. The air does … Read more

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