RUNSPIRITED

Today was a race day like none that I had previously experienced. No pre-race meeting. No friendly exchanges with other runners at the starting line. No finish line.

I joined iRunFar's #OperationInspiration Virtual Race to contribute to a worthy cause, the World Health...

Ellie Pell found running about six years ago soon after moving to Ithaca, N.Y. She was in her early 20s, had little savings and did not know anyone in her new community. 

“I started because it was free fitness. I ended up winning a local half marathon,” she says, admitt...

Dear coronavirus,

I am thankful and glad that we have not met in person, as far as I know. You, sir or madam, are a menace to the world.

It’s been angering, sobering and disheartening to follow your path of destruction. First you wreaked havoc on China, then rapidly spre...

Amy Clark stood at the starting line of her first ultra, the McDonald Forest 50K in Corvallis, Ore., not knowing what to expect. She knew she would encounter about 10,000 feet of gain over the course. But she didn’t foresee such a welcoming ultra community.

“I didn't kn...

As I write this the ultra running community has paused with the rest of the world due to the coronavirus outbreak. It’s unknown when things will return to a semblance of normal, of course. And when they do, our world will have changed significantly from when news of th...

“Is your race still on?”

It was a question I was asked with increased frequency last week as the coronavirus shut down much of our way of life, including virtually the entire sports world.

Major sports leagues and races cancelled or postponed events to adhere to the new...

It came as no surprise to me that amid a peak training period my inflammation rated “at risk’ during a recent InsideTracker blood draw.

The blood draw, which was taken Feb. 10, followed my first 50-mile week of training as I gear up the Bel Monte 50K in March, followed...

As his three mixed-breed dogs scampered about, Patrick Reagan cut up vegetables in his kitchen for dinner while doing this interview. While his dogs are all mutts — “the best kind of dogs” — Reagan himself is a rare breed: a professional ultra runner.

In the past year,...

There are clearly two types of runners.

I’m not thinking of elites and everyday runners. Nor I am referring to road and trail runners. Short distance and long distance? Nope.

The two types are those who run with headphones and those without. As long as I have been a runn...

While I pride myself on being an editor/writer (as well as a runner), I’ve never been interested in poetry. When it comes to poems, I think I peaked early in my childhood with creative finishes to “Roses are red / Violets are blue … “

At this time In my life, I am often...