Myths about women in sport date back at least to the dawn of the Olympics 2,800 years ago, when women weren’t allowed to compete. These myths “remain hard to shake,” according to sports journalist ...

‘I feel like I have to be a lot more wary of my surroundings and keep an eye out for anything that doesn’t look quite right,’ says Jane Rose, 50 from London. ‘Running in the summer months is a lot ...

I still remember my first long run. I was 19, home from college, and it was one of those perfect summer days: bright and blue and not too humid. When I got to the end of the trail, my typical ...

Myths about women in sport date back at least to the dawn of the Olympics 2,800 years ago, when women weren’t allowed to compete. These myths “remain hard to shake,” according to sports journalist ...

Rebecca Cheptegei loved chickens. She reared them and collected their eggs each morning. Her family would gently joke she loved them too much. “She was always laughing,” says her mother, Agnes. “You ...

As a child, I ran for the blue ribbons. I loved those tiny blue ribbons that some PTA mom probably stapled to a little square of cardboard that said “Lockwood Elementary Track and Field.” I earned ...

Philadelphia officials announced last week that it would award equal prize money for the women’s, men’s, and nonbinary people’s races. Organizers say that they are taking a “face-value approach to ...

In 2024, I ran the inaugural Every Woman’s Marathon in Savannah, Georgia. During the sold-out race, which was designed to celebrate women, I was surprised to see a sprinkling of cisgender men running, ...

Long before Diana Wojsznis of Portland, Oregon, became an avid trail runner, she was a teenager with unexplained chronic pain. After years of suffering, at 28, she was diagnosed with a severe form of ...