A long-distance marathon course becomes the setting for women competing in an endurance running event. The title points to ...

More than 2,500 years ago, as legend has it, a soldier named Pheidippides ran approximately 25 miles from Marathon, Greece, to Athens. He announced victory against the Persian army — and subsequently ...

“Oh, my gosh,” one Olympian gasped when she got her first look at the hilly, demanding course. “This looks ridiculous.” By Scott Cacciola Reporting from Paris Ed Eyestone is not one for hyperbole. A ...

The athletes with the second-fastest women's and men's marathon times are headed to one of the world's quickest courses ...