Many runners believe their natural stride could be improved. Here’s what to know before trying to change yours. By Christine Yu Want to get better at tennis? Fine-tune your serve. Swimming? Perfect ...

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Peter Larson, an associate professor of biology at Saint Anselm College, in New Hampshire, runs marathons. He also uses high-speed cameras to film runners and analyze their strides. Recently he ...

Chances are you were never taught how to run. You’re born, you learn to crawl, progress to a walk, then something inside tells you to go a bit faster: hey presto, you’re running. Entering adulthood, ...

Just as no two people are the same, no two runners have the same stride length, either. The rate, rhythm, and distance from the body at which we strike our feet against the ground is different for ...

The world’s largest running event returns for its 13th edition. Runners and wheelchair-users across the globe start together, all moving for one shared goal: to find a cure for spinal cord injury.

In 1996, I spent 2 months training at 10,000 feet in Toluca, Mexico. My gracious host was two-time New York City Marathon champion German Silva. (If you think German is a fast runner, you should see ...