Faith Kipyegon ran a mile in 4 minutes, 6.42 seconds — more than a second faster than her world record — at “Breaking4,” a special event billed as Kipyegon’s attempt to become the first woman to run a ...

Josh Kerr broke the mile world record earlier this year. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Harry Murphy / Getty Images Peak newsletter 🧠 | This is an excerpt from The Athletic’s weekly ...

Think back to your elementary school days and the first race you probably ever ran: the gym-class mile. If you ran track competitively in high school or college, you might have raced the mile; a fast, ...

Learn precisely how many feet are in a mile and more fun facts. You probably learned how many feet are in a mile sometime in school. But, like the difference between an isosceles and a trapezoid and ...

Running is just a form of exercise for some but for athletes, it’s more. Running or sprinting often reminds many of Usain Bolt, the world’s fastest runner. Bolt runs shorter distances, however. Hie ...

Sinclaire Johnson ran the fastest women’s mile in American history in finishing fourth overall at a Diamond League meet in London on Saturday. Johnson, 27, clocked 4 minutes, 16.32 seconds, in her ...

This article contains major spoilers for Mile 22. We all make mistakes. And while sometimes that means leaving the refrigerator door open, for the likes of Mark Wahlberg’s Jimmy Silva, a brilliant ...

1. A 10-mile race is the best predictor of your fitness level, because you run the race at lactate threshold pace (the speed above which lactate begins to pile up in your blood). Compared to maximal ...

There's plenty of fodder around the benefits of logging 10,000 steps per day for better health. The idea is mostly the product of a myth started by some clever marketing in 1965 by Yamasa Tokei, a ...