Ethiopia’s Tamirat Tola and Netherlands’ Siffan Hassan set new Olympic records to win the men’s and women’s marathon races at the Paris 2024 Olympics. In closely contested races, Tola triumphed in 2:06:26, while Hassan finished in 2:22:55. Lessons from the events emphasized the importance of speed, utilizing strengths, and the unpredictable nature of marathons.
Mike Cartwright, now 65 years old, started running marathons when he was about 46. This weekend, on 9th June 2024, he completed his 300th marathon in Thailand at the Laguna Phuket Marathon! “I started it…
One of the reasons why you are here reading this article could be that you are trying to find a running coach, you are new to running, you feel the need to improve on your…
A Runner after a marathon training run. Written or unwritten, every organized activity in this world has got its own defined rules and regulations. From the fifteen years of experience I have had in professional…
Reid Coolsaet, the two times Olympian from Canada, is one of the pioneer long-distance runners in his country. The 44-year-old no longer feature a lot in the big city marathons, but continues to inspire the…
Running-related injuries happen in many ways. Most of the time, it starts out as a slight discomfort that would simply go away on its own. Sometimes, it happens abruptly in the middle of their run…
Duration and distance are the two main factors Kenyan long-distance running coaches often use to design weekly or monthly training programs for their runners. It could be a one-hour or a 12km easy run; a…
The emergence of sophisticated GPS watches, heart rate monitors, running applications, and fitness websites like Strava that share training data and experiences, has made it possible for me to give running advice to runners across…
Lotiang’s selfless act When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020 and most of the runners lost their source of income after races across the world were canceled, John Lotiang was selfless and determined to…
The 2022 Adidas Stockholm Marathon happened on Saturday 4th June. In an interesting race that had a dramatic turn of events in the men’s race that would cost the lead runner the course record, two…
Waking up at night to watch the Nagoya Women’s Marathon did not go to waste as Chepngetich ran another memorable race to win and set a new course record. Below is the story I did…
My first Impression on the Enertor products I was impressed with the speed at which the Enertor insoles and compression socks reached me here in Kenya, all the way from the UK. It only took…