Oscar Pistorious: The Six Million Dollar Man?
After years of training, double-amputee Oscar Pistorious achieved his dream this week, when South Africa's athletics federation selected him for the country's team in the track and field world...
View ArticleA History of Marathons in America
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon. When it was first held in 1897 only 18 runners took part. Last year, however, more than 21,000 runners finished the 26.2 mile course. When...
View ArticleRunning Coach Discusses the Scene on the Ground in Boston
Amby Burfoot, a giant of running coaching, joins us from Boston to discuss the scene on the ground, the mood among runners, and what it feels like for this race—a race that is the culmination of so...
View ArticleThe Fastest Man in the World? Doping and the Future of Usain Bolt
Jamaica is heralded for its cultivation of outstanding sprinters and has produced its share of stars.Before Usain Bolt captured the title of world’s fastest man in May 2008, fellow Jamaican Asafa...
View ArticleA Military Widow and Her Community Find Solace in Running
The marathon of grief is a run without a finish line. You put one foot in front of the other, push through the pain, and run forward for someone who no longer can. For Lisa Hallett, sometimes running...
View ArticleIt's All Relative
Both physicist Brian Greene and neurologist Oliver Sacks explain the very strange, very subjective nature of time. The elasticity of experience is expressed by sound artist Ben Rubin in a piece he...
View ArticleA Runner's Classical Playlist
Whether running 26.2 miles through the streets of New York or battling it out with the eliptical trainer at your gym, classical music can play the role of energizer and motivator. Here are a dozen...
View ArticleWhy We Run
Robin Harvie talks about how a casual running hobby turned into a 120-miles-a-week obsession. In The Lure of Long Distances: Why We Run he explains how he became an ultra-long-distance runner, and his...
View ArticleWhere to Hit the Beach in New York City
It's time to stash the sleds and snowgear and dust off the boogie board: There's a beach in your borough in which you can lounge, slather on some sunblock and enjoy a good read. Don't forget to leave...
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NYC Parks: Picnics, Birdwatching and Biking in All the Five Boroughs
The solstice may not officially ring in summer till June 21, but that's no reason to hold off on celebrating this week's warm weather with family and friends (and a nice pair of white pants, perhaps)...
View ArticleJim Axelrod's Long Run
Jim Axelrod, a national correspondent for CBS News, talks about how his late father inspired him to run the New York Marathon in 2009. In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in...
View ArticleUltramarathoner Scott Jurek on Eating and Running
Scott Jurek tell us about his rise in the sport of ultrarunning and about his vegan diet. In Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness he gives an account of competing in...
View ArticleHead over heels
Diane Van Deren is one of the best ultra-runners in the world, and it all started with a seizure. For Diane, a charming mother of three, daily life is a struggle. But as soon as she steps outdoors,...
View ArticleWhen Brains Attack!
In this episode, strange stories of brains that lead their owners astray, knock them off balance, and, sometimes, propel them to do amazing things.We hear from a kid whose voice was disguised from...
View ArticleRed Hook Track Coach Enjoys Olympic Success
Brooklyn-based track and field coach Trevor Green has produced his first Olympic medalist after 20 years of coaching.The fifth-grade teacher and self-taught trainer founded the Zenith Velocity Athletic...
View Article1,576 Steps in a Race to the Top
It was a short race – just under a quarter of a mile – but it was all uphill.About 600 runners made their way to the lobby of the Empire State Building Wednesday night to sprint, shuffle or walk up 86...
View ArticleFirst City Races Held After Bombing
The first organized races in the city since the Boston marathon bombings will be held in Central Park this weekend.Runners in both the four-mile City Parks Foundation Run for the Parks and the 10K...
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'Why This Compulsion To Run Long Distances?' A Runner's Beautiful Confession
Biologist Bernd Heinrich was in Zimbabwe, in the field, eyes down, looking for beetles, when for no particular reason he looked up and saw ... well, at first he wasn't sure what it was, so he stepped...
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Keep Running
Running from Wisconsin to Indiana: 80 miles, 12 hours, 1 day. Performed by Peter McNernery, with Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Julia Hynes, and Teddy Shivers. Based on an interview with Brian Foy....
View ArticleStretch of 1st Avenue Repaved with New Asphalt
A large stretch of 1st avenue has been re-paved using asphalt the Department of Transportation says is more durable and easier to maintain. Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan says the roadway was...
View ArticleCut and Run
Legions of athletes, sports gurus, and scientists have tried to figure out why Kenyans dominate long-distance running. In this short, we stumble across a surprising, and sort of terrifying,...
View ArticleNYC Marathon Roars Back
The New York City Marathon charged back to life on Sunday as more than 48,000 runners streamed across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the race's start. About 21,000 of them were holdovers from last...
View ArticleSoundcheck's Ultimate Running Playlist; Workout Music; Escort Plays Live
In this episode: This year, Soundcheck is offering up no fewer than two of its producers to Sunday's New York City Half Marathon. And we asked listeners to help us build a playlist to carry us across...
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Drawing Pictures With Your Run Mapping App
Look, I run for exercise, but I don't like it. Sure, I love the feeling of accomplishment, but I think my biggest problem with it, aside from the fact that I am not all that athletic, is that it's just...
View ArticleGetting Faster and Older
Margaret Webb, a long-distance runner, a volunteer running coach for underprivileged kids, and the author of Older, Faster, Stronger: What Women Runners Can Teach Us All About Living Younger, Longer...
View ArticleCut and Run
At the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City, Kipchoge Keino overcame a gall bladder infection to win gold in the 1500 meter race. Since then, one particular group of Kenyans - the Kalenjin - has...
View ArticleA Champion Marathoner Shares his Secrets
In Meb Keflezighi's new book, Meb for Mortals: How to Run, Eat and Think Like a Champion Marathoner, he describes his complete marathon training program. Despite a long career, Meb ran his personal...
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Rand Paul shares his secret to winning Iowa
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: The crowded Republican field running for president faces the first real test in less than two weeks, when voting begins in Iowa and New...
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Road to Rio is paved with poetry for runner Alexi Pappas
Alexi Pappas says she was a serious poet before she became a serious runner. The 26-year-old athlete, who will compete in the women’s 10,000 meter at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, was a poetry major at...
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Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual...
For the Summer Olympics, we explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force and a connector across all kinds of boundaries in American culture: running. Not just as exercise, or as...
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How a morning run can be the first step out of homelessness
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioIn our NewsHour Shares series, we show you things that caught our eye recently on the web. What about you? Leave your suggestions in the comments below, or tweet to...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Long-Distance Race
So you’re a serious runner? Consider the Self-Transcendence Race, running around the same half-mile loop for 3100 miles.
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Billy Mills, Christina Torres, Ashley Hicks, et al. — Running as Spiritual...
We explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force and a connector across all kinds of boundaries in American culture: running. Not just as exercise, or as a merely physical...
View ArticleWhy We Love To Run
For our next Please Explain, Vybarr Cregan-Reid jogs us through the basics of running. Cregan-Reid, who authored the book Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human, reveals how running reconnects us to our...
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