Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ultimately, “slow” is relative and subjective, but it’s a word that can sometimes be used to discredit runners or box certain ...

Earlier this year, I was deep into marathon training, gearing up for one of many interval runs in a 16-week plan. By week nine, the novelty of running fast had worn off. The pace targets were getting ...

Runners are obsessed with time. Amateur or professional, for most avid runners the aim is to get faster—constantly training in order to shave even just a couple of seconds off their marathon time or ...

When I was on my weight-loss kick over three years ago, my goal was just to survive running a 10K — and even then I was highly skeptical about just trying it. While I did complete my first — and only ...

Speaking from experience, when you go for a run and someone considerably older—who's slow running and doesn’t look like they’ve put much time into their fitness—passes you without appearing to make a ...

When you learn to enjoy the “party pace”, you rewire your definition of success. Maybe we all need more of that.

When Hunter Hughes ran into his grandfather at the local shoe store, his grandfather didn’t recognize him. It’s happened a lot since Hughes lost weight. Someone he knows will walk past him, and it’s ...

Eleven years ago, Martinus Evans’ doctor issued him a dire warning. “You’re fat. You can either lose weight or die,” he told Evans, then 25 and 360 pounds. Evans, a former college football player, ...

Earlier this year, I was deep into marathon training, gearing up for one of many interval runs in a 16-week plan. By week nine, the novelty of running fast had worn off. The pace targets were getting ...

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