MANKATO — Thousands of runners from all over are here to compete in the 2025 Mankato Marathon. The 26.2-mile race, taking ...

Between bitterly cold temperatures, the seemingly endless hours of darkness, and the sleet, snow, and slippery roads, running in the winter is not for the meek. Just getting out the door can take a ...

You might shrug off a lot of quotes as cliche or trite, but the truth is that good motivational running quotes can change your run. It shifts the mindset and gives you a new way to look at your ...

Running in your 40s and onward can bring on some of your most enjoyable miles yet. Whether you’ve been running since your 20s ...

Richard A. Lovett is my professional name. Friends know me as Rick. I’ve done a lot of things in my life, including getting a Ph.D., and being a law prof, but these days, I’m primarily a writer and ...

I arrived at boarding school on an unbearably humid day in September of 1989, my curiosity about everything I would experience during my years there an untamed fireball. The school required ...

Despite warm weather and sunshine during the day, it was dark and cold when I finally got out for a run one evening last week. Bundling up against a chill wind, I was beginning to think, as some of ...

When the first running boom hit the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, it was all about racing. A runner’s daily running was called “training,” and geared toward running fast at the weekly 10k race ...

Sometimes, it also helps to operate on autopilot: I’ll set out my running gear on my bedroom floor the night before, and I ...

As fall quickly fades into winter, it’s easy to skip a run to stay bundled up on the couch. But taking the winter off can make for a rough spring. In an effort to find motivation to bundle up, we took ...