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Early this year, Western States Endurance Race (WSER) sponsor GU Energy Labs posted on Instagram that they were giving away two entries to “runners from historically excluded and underrepresented [...]

In South Africa, the Comrades Marathon (roughly 88K, 55ish miles) is the standard by which running is measured. I’ve heard runners say more than once that the general feeling is, “You’re [...]

Seasons of life converge on endless trails. Cherie Turner is a seasoned runner, podcaster, and storyteller with a passion for exploring life’s paths. In this article, Cherie explores the [...]

In early 2015, I stood in legendary ultra runner Ann Trason’s guest room, filled with memorabilia from her storied career, and I fixed on a photo of her with Nelson Mandela. It was from one of [...]

There is a conventional line of thought that aiming for outstanding athletic achievements ends somewhere in your 20s or 30s. The growing number of competitive masters runners is my proof that’s [...]

Heavy Medals is a 7-part series that makes up the seventh season of ESPN’s 30for30 podcast, the audio documentary sister program to the sports media giant’s film documentary series of the same [...]

Chris Clark wasn’t a name many people in the elite marathon ranks were familiar with back in 2000 when she was headed to the Olympic Marathon Trials. She certainly wasn’t among the [...]

Back in August 2018, I started transitioning from working only with written text to producing and narrating audio stories. My first story aired on the excellent NPR sports show, out of WBUR [...]

I LEARNED ABOUT WRITE FOR RIGHTS (W4R), the world’s largest letter-writing campaign, organized by Amnesty International (AI), a few years ago through social media (I was nicely surprised to [...]