The Chinese team heads to the home of elite running.

The death of a runner and the “ongoing culture war between fitness enthusiasts and automobiles.”

What happens when a runner loses his feet?

How a 100-mile footrace saved a beleaguered town.

A 16-year-old runner, her coach and the lasting memory of an improbable race.

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

On distance running and the art of exhaustion.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

A Kenyan runner loses himself in Alaska.

On champ-turned-coach Alberto Salazar and the New York City Marathon.

On the world’s longest foot race, which takes place entirely within Queens, N.Y.:

Such were the hazards last summer in Jamaica, Queens, at the tenth running of the Self-Transcendence 3,100. The fifteen participants—all but two of them disciples of the Bengali Guru Sri Chinmoy, who has resided in the neighborhood for forty years—hailed from ten countries on three continents. They ran in all weather, seven days a week, from 6:00 a.m. to midnight, or until their bodies compelled them to rest. If they logged fewer than fifty miles on a given day, they risked disqualification. By their own reckoning, the runners climbed eight meters per lap, mounting and descending a spectral Everest every week and a half. They toiled in this fashion for six to eight weeks, however long it took them to complete 5,649 circuits—3,100 miles—around a single city block.

A jogging buddy collapses during a marathon, his heart suddenly finished beating. The writer goes looking for answers.

In Mexico’s remote Copper Canyon, the Tarahumara Indians party hard, get by on a diet of carbs and beer, and can still run 100 mile races, even in their 60s.