He is the founder of The Running Week, a runner, and a lifelong sports enthusiast dedicated to sharing practical advice, inspiring stories, and evidence-based training tips.
A doctor told Sir Christopher Ball to lose weight before his 70th birthday. He picked up running instead. He is now in his 90s and still going.
A 2025 study followed people building a new life through running after addiction. What they found challenges the standard picture of recovery.
Dr. Stacy Sims has spent 20 years dismantling the assumption that female runners can fuel like men. Here are her five clearest contradictions of standard marathon nutrition advice.
Stress fractures affect up to 20% of distance runners. Here are the warning signs, the RED-S connection, and the bone-health protocol every runner over 35 should know.
Pur Bahadur Gurung, known as Yukta, died in the Broad Peak avalanche at 37. He went from porter in 2009 to ten Everest summits and IFMGA certification.
Estrogen fluctuations during perimenopause slow recovery, weaken bones, and raise injury risk in female runners. Here is what changes, and how to train around it.
On the last Monday in May, a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese is released from the top of a nearly vertical grass hillside in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. Seconds later, a line of adults throw themselves off the same edge in pursuit.
When Mitch Kahn retired from his career in risk management in 2008, he weighed 265 pounds. His triglycerides, total cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol were all badly elevated.
Three hours before Ja’Kobe Tharp broke a 13-year-old world record in the 110-metre hurdles, he sat down and ate two cheeseburgers, a large fries, and ten Chicken McNuggets.
On Tuesday evening, at the trailhead below Mount Whitney, a 34-year-old runner from Costa Mesa, California, did something that had never been done in the nearly 40-year history of the Badwater 135.
Western States is being won by runners in their early 30s. Hardrock is being won by a 50-year-old. Trail super shoes explain the split, and it changes who peaks when.
Static stretching cold hamstrings, running through shin pain, foam-rolling into pain. Here is what to do instead.
