Extreme fitness: are you tough enough?
Forget spinning and Zumba, gyms are now filled with chains, hammers and tyres. When did work-outs get so hardcore? Stuart Heritage joins the men and women going primal
I run this body: how I battled meningitis and won
At 18, Kim Lo ran for her school. Then meningitis nearly killed her and left her with no toes. The consultant said she would never win another race. Could she prove him wrong?
Parents – turn off those screens and get running with your kids
Do your children sit for hours in front of video games and TV? Here’s one way of getting your little couch potatoes out for some exercise
My marathon research to get to the bottom of cramp
Most runners will have experienced cramp, either during or after a race. But with three marathons over three weekends to train for, Chris Wright was determined to find the cause of his pain
Is it ever right to pull someone out of a race for being too slow?
A woman was pulled out of a 20-mile race yesterday for ‘being too slow’. What message does this give to people taking up running to improve their health and fitness?
Nowhere to run: did my fitness addiction make me ill?
Scarlett Thomas was a born-again fitness fanatic, religiously measuring her performance in daily stats and graphs. Then she started to feel dizzy – was her Fitbit fighting back?
Why do women get so much grief when they run?
Yes, men get comments too – but street harassment of female runners is par for the course. It shouldn’t be this way
Active People survey: bad news for swimmers, good signs for runners
Kate Carter: Though the decline in swimming and in female participation in sport grabbed the headlines, the annual Active People survey from Sport England showed promising signs for the running community
Snow joke: winter running in Lapland
Most people go to Swedish Lapland’s Icehotel for a romantic break spent wrapped in furs and chasing the northern lights. Sarah Baxter pulls on her trainers instead, for knee-deep snow-running in -14C
All change: running (fast) through the menopause
Every study, doctor and book on the menopause recommends exercise. But why, asks Ronnie Haydon, can’t we aim for more than a gentle stroll? Middle-aged women are still strong and capable