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Immediately after Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 in the London Marathon, the world demanded to know everything about him. How did he train? What shoes did he wear? What fluids and gels did he consume? What about caffeine and sodium bicarbonate? No one asked about his mental preparation.  Folks, we might be missing a significant piece ...

The Las Vegas Marathon will run down the Strip again on January 10, 2027, race producer Brooksee announced this week. It is the first time the city has hosted a major 26.2-mile race along Las Vegas Boulevard since 2019, and registration is already open at vegasmarathon.com. The new course starts and finishes at The STRAT, ...

If you watched the London Marathon two weeks ago (and even if you didn’t), you know the result. Sabastian Sawe, 1:59:30, the first man to break two hours in a legitimate, record-eligible marathon. What you have not seen, until today, is the year of work behind it. Adidas released Chasing Sub 2 this morning, a ...

Warmups are meant to raise core temperature, loosen the hips, wake up the calves, and they might even include a few strides so race pace doesn’t feel like a shock. But a new study asks whether a warm-up is also about getting the brain ready.1Mortimer, H., Dallaway, N., Díaz‐García, J., & Ring, C. (2026). Warming ...

Strava is not simply a fitness-tracking app. It is part training log, part social network, part scoreboard, part identity machine. A new study suggests that, for competitive female runners, that combination can be both motivating and psychologically messy.1 The researchers wanted to understand why competitive female runners use Strava and how they perceive its effects ...