As Mo Farah steps onto the London Stadium track to compete in his final campaign for double gold, Nike’s new film ‘Smile’ celebrates the tremendous sacrifice and resilient mindset behind his record-breaking track career… and unbeatable smile. “Smile” chronicles Farah’s…
The European Masters athletics championships 2017 in Denmark is currently hosting over 4000 masters athletes – all over the age of 35 with some of them over 90 years old. Dr Alex Rotas is currently photographing some of Europe’s most…
Kai Markus Xiong describes himself as “a normal person who’s running to China.” In March 2017, the 45-year-old German set off on the challenge of running 12,000KM (almost 7,500 miles) from Hamburg to Shanghai in China. He’s following the route…
I’ve been going on “adventures” – long and exciting trips to the furthest reaches of the planet — since I was 21 and have loved every minute of it. There’s something about the remoteness, the inaccessibility and the grind of such…
Novice runner Laura Jones sets sights on world’s highest marathon, and takes on 7 marathons on 7 continents in one year. After a long winter of dark runs, painful training sessions and endless miles, Laura Jones is thrilled to have…
Written by Alan Stone Like many of the best running ideas, this was dreamt up in a pub after a couple of beers. Martyn and I both belong to a fell running club called Mynyddwyr De Cymru. Try saying that…
A student from Birmingham Conservatoire has mixed his love of both music and athletics to break a Guinness World Record; running the fastest half marathon dressed as a musical instrument. Donning a custom-made viola costume, Alistair Rutherford ran the Liverpool…
From Svalbard to South Africa and Marrakesh to Istanbul, I’ve run in some exciting, exotic marathons in some pretty awe-inspiring corners of the World. Now I’ve run a marathon in a multi storey car park in Worthing. Written by Tim…
Novice runner Laura Jones sets sights on world’s highest marathon, and takes on 7 marathons on 7 continents in one year – something only 6 British women have completed. After innocently agreeing to run the Everest Marathon, despite having no…
Scottish doctor, Andrew Murray, has retained his title as champion of the Genghis Khan Ice Marathon, one of the toughest physical feats on the planet. Dr. Andrew Murray travelled to the Arctic plains of Mongolia to compete in the race…