The calf muscles are essential for runners, they support your load and can boost both cadence and explosiveness.

Mary Palmer - an 80-year-old runner and ex-teacher, recently completed a 26-mile marathon - has revealed the diet and intense ...

Generally speaking, you’ll want your prerun snacks and meals to be high in simple sugars (white bread or bagel, banana, ...

Your muscle fibers are malleable and the secret to getting faster at running everything from the 5K to the marathon lies in your cells.

Strained calves or Achilles tendons: Running a marathon essentially requires hours of calf raises, which can leave you with ...

Marathon running causes a temporary decline in brain myelin content, but levels return to normal within two months. This ...

Christine McMillian will be a first-time marathon runner who is now seven weeks into her training. At this point in her ...

Here are some tips I’ve learned over two and a half decades of distance running and injury prevention that can help in the ...

Some are now using wheelchairs, including the oldest who is 87. Despite it all, the Los Angeles Marathon's Legacy Runners have stuck to their mission: finish the race. On Sunday, the group of 92 ...

According to Kieran, Zone 2 training plays a critical role in building the aerobic base needed for sustained performance.