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Garmin’s Q3 2026 update is live and rolling out to over a dozen watches as of September 1. Fall detection, a hands-free voice assistant and a smarter way to start workouts on the fly — there is real substance here. But the headline that matters most to a significant chunk of Garmin’s user base is … Read more
There is something darkly ironic about pollution season in north India. It arrives exactly when the running calendar fills up. October to January is when you train hardest, when the big city races are on and when the air across the Indo-Gangetic Plain is at its most dangerous. The weather finally cooperates. The air does … Read more
Quick Facts 📅 Race Date: Sunday, May 2, 2027 📍 Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 🏁 Start: Liberty Avenue near 10th St, Downtown Pittsburgh 🏁 Finish: Point State Park, Downtown Pittsburgh 📏 Distance: 26.2 miles — also Half Marathon, Relay, 5K, Champions Mile, Kids Mile ⏱ Start Time: 7:00 AM ET (marathon and half marathon) ⏳ … Read more
At the 80-kilometer mark of the UTMB in Courmayeur the math simply stopped making sense. A painful sound foot and severe discomfort where carbon met residual limb had pushed a 39-year-old French runner to the absolute brink. He was 98 percent certain his race was over. But Julien Veysseyre did not drop out. He stepped … Read more
The African runners had won this race almost every year for two decades. Then a Peruvian waited until kilometre 30, opened his stride, and nobody went with him. Cristhian Pacheco, the two-time Pan American Games marathon champion, won the XLIII Telcel Mexico City Marathon on Sunday August 30 in 2:10:03, breaking the long run of … Read more
📅 Dates: 13–15 November 2026 📍 Location: Mui Wo, Lantau Island, Hong Kong SAR 🏃 Distances: TL100 (104km) · TL50 (45km) · TL25 (27km) · TL15 (15km) ⛰️ Elevation gain: TL100: 4,500m+ · TL50: 2,500m+ · TL25: 1,100m+ · TL15: 500m+ ⏱️ Cutoff: TL100: 27 hours · TL25: 6 hours 🕢 TL100 start: Friday 13 … Read more
The defending champion finished sixth. Seven men broke the old course record. And a 46-year-old ran the race of her life from the front before the world’s best finally caught her. The TCS Sydney Marathon 2026 did not just produce fast times — it produced one of the deepest, most chaotic and most compelling Major … Read more
Registration Update: Registration for the upcoming Banff Half Marathon officially opens on September 14. This is a highly popular destination race so we recommend securing your spot early! 🏔️ Quick Facts 📅 Race date: Sunday, June 20, 2027 📍 Location: Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada 📏 Distances: Half Marathon (21.1 km) and 10K 🏁 Start: … Read more
The biggest story at the 2026 BMW Berlin Marathon was never going to be the men’s race. Even before Sabastian Sawe pulled out, the real draw on 27 September was Tigst Assefa. She won here in 2023 in 2:11:53, a time so far ahead of the field it looked like a data entry error. Three … Read more
Photo: Li Hao / Global Times (via X/@globaltimesnews) 8.64 seconds. That is the number Tiangong Ultra left Beijing with on Wednesday night, winning the 100m final at the closing ceremony of the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games. It is the fourth time this week the record fell at the same venue, in the same event, … Read more