The New York Times covered the Barkley Mountain Marathon, a 100-mile footrace through the hills of eastern Tennessee that is nearly impossible to enter and even more difficult to finish. Since its inception in the mid 1980s, only 12 people have finished the gruelethon. Gary Cantrell is the race director, but ‘cult leader’ would probably [ more... ]

Following next month’s Hong Kong Marathon, Fauja “The Turbaned Tornado” Singh will retire from marathoning, an activity he took up at the age of 89. He says he still plans to run about four hours a day, just not competitively anymore. Over the years Singh has run eight marathons, mostly in London but also Toronto [ more... ]

Scott Downard had no intention of running the Cowtown Marathon in Fort Worth, Texas, but when a friend who’d registered was unable to run, he pinned on his number and took off. Then he won first place by over 6 minutes. His 2:31:40 would have qualified him for Boston and New York, but he’ll have [ more... ]

A Belgian athlete has set a world record completing 365 marathons 365 days in a row. The 49-year-old averaged about 4 hours per marathon with his best time coming in at 2 hours and 56 minutes. He must have had other errands to run that day and wanted to get done early. He ran across [ more... ]