Running
I was hounded by a canine sex pest
A big part of my problem is that I don’t understand why people do the things they do. I was…
Emil Zátopek: a legend from athletics’ golden age of innocence
The story of the Czechoslovak runner Emil Zátopek is a tale from athletics’ age of innocence. Without the aid of…
The harsh, lonely lives of Kenya’s astonishingly gifted runners
Two Hours is a kind of Hoop Dreams for runners. Ed Caesar follows a handful of Kenyan marathoners, tracks their…
For Roger Bannister, the four-minute mile was just the start
The title of this reflective and readable memoir refers to the author’s lifetime interests in sport and medicine — tracks…
I’m sick of sponsoring you to suffer
Every charitable donation now seems to come with a promise to suffer