podcasts Chasing Records on the Opposite Side of the World On the latest episode of The XC Podcast, Alex Cyr talks with Andrea Seccafien from her home in Australia. The Canadian half-marathon record holder is fit, healthy, and finally out of Australia's months-long lockdown
podcasts Gabriela DeBues-Stafford on the near impossibility of a 2021 Tokyo Olympics In a wide-ranging podcast conversation, one of the top 1,500m runners in the world talks about joining the Nike Bowerman Track Club, Tokyo, and crushing fantasy novels during the Pandemic
podcasts On the Podcast: What's Next For Running Folk Hero Cam Levins? Canada's marathon king faces a daunting deadline to qualify for the Tokyo Games and redefine his legacy
Shoes Are (Non-Nike) Carbon-Plated Shoes Causing an Elite Sponsorship Renaissance in Running? Running brands appear to be moving away from influencers and back to pro contracts in order to prove their super shoes are indeed fast. But as the Olympics approach and the shoe war rages on, will more new deals follow?
podcasts Our Bold Predictions for 2021 We make 10 wild (yet educated) guesses as to what might happen in the running world in these next 12 very uncertain months
Olympics Who Will Make Canada's 2021 Olympic Marathon Team? Canadian Olympic hopefuls in the marathon are running faster than ever, and it's making the qualification process so complicated. We explain who's in, who wants in, and how the team is picked
The Marathon Project It's Olympic Standard or Bust for Kinsey Middleton The Canadian-American knows she's got to do something special this Sunday if she wants to lock in her spot for Tokyo
The Marathon Project Ben Preisner Should Be Your Dark Horse Pick For Something Special at the Marathon Project He low-key ran a 2:15 marathon time trial by himself during the Pandemic. Yes, you read that correctly
The Marathon Project Rory Linkletter On The Marathon Project Alex Cyr talks with the Olympic hopeful Rory Linkletter about facing off against Cam Levins for a spot in Tokyo, and what he considers to be his home course
podcasts Adidas Finally Figured Out How to Make a Fast Shoe (and It's Really Fast) Kandie runs a sweet half, Tuliamuk is 31-weeks pregnant, Moh Ahmed gets snubbed for a Canadian award, and more
diamond league Can the Diamond League Actually Reinvent Itself? The world's most prestigious track and field series was facing a crisis even before the pandemic. Will it's sweeping new set of changes reignite the popularity of athletics?
USports And the Winners of the 2020 U SPORTS Cross Country-Championships Would Have Been... Had COVID-19 never happened, we would be in the midst of the 2020 U SPORTS championship season. Here, Alex Cyr takes his best guess at what the race's results would have looked like
podcasts The U SPORTS Year That Never Was, With Courtney Hufsmith and Eric Lutz Had sports not been cancelled this fall, the U SPORTS cross-country championship would be happening this weekend. Alex Cyr talks with two top athletes about what could have been
tech A Texas Uber Driver Created a Cross-Country Running Video Game Crossing-country running gets the most cross-country running of video games — beautifully simple, gruelling, and strangely thrilling
opinion "Totally Doping" Every time there's an "unbelievable performance," we're all thinking the same thing. Track and field has a cynicism problem
opinion We Are Living in the Golden Age of Strava, But Is That a Good Thing? Running's New Normal is riddled with orange lines and shiny crowns. Is running's dominant social network an inspiring tool that brings us together, or is Strava as dangerous as Facebook for our mental health?
podcasts NAZ Elite's Rory Linkletter on Ekidens, Trucks, Marathons and Bogey Golf In this episode of The XC Podcast, Alex Cyr talks with Rory Linkletter, a Canadian-American sponsored by Hoka One One, a member of the NAZ Elite squad, and running's equivalent to the Dos Equis' Most Interesting Man in the World.
Shoes Nike and Adidas' Revolutionary Shoes Take a Fall Beware: we now live by the carbon fibre shoe, and die by the carbon fibre shoe when running fast
2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Instant Reaction Podcast - 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships A dramatic, thrilling women's race for the ages (that included a world record), and a star (named Jacob Kiplimo) is born on the men's side
2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships The World Halfs Preview Podcast Who will win this year's only global championship event, set to go off on Saturday morning in Poland? We break it down.
Features The worth of a 2:10 marathon? The Tristan Woodfine Case Study Tristan Woodfine ran 2:10:51 on Sunday at the 2020 London Marathon. That makes him the sixth-fastest marathoner in Canadian history, and a shoo-in for the 2021 Olympics. But in the age of online influencing, is that enough to get him sponsored?
podcasts NN World Record Day Delivered on Its Promise Wednesday's "World Record Day" special one-off track meet in Valencia, Spain really lived up to its namesake
podcasts What Happened to Eliud Kipchoge at the London Marathon? Our instant reactions podcast after a wet and wild race in London, which featured one of the great upsets in marathon history
podcasts Can Running One (Virtual) Marathon Count Twice? In this episode, a debate about the ethics and rules (or lack thereof) when running a virtual race, plus another crazy world record attempt, and Kipchoge thinks that you (yes, you) can run sub-2
