Ask any expert how you should measure your running progress and they’ll tell you to track your performance. How you feel should always trump how you look, they’ll tell you – this will keep you ...

Athlete. Kenyan. Mother of one. Faith Kipyegon is a three-time Olympic gold medalist for the 1500 meters who simultaneously holds the world record for being the fastest woman to run a mile in 4:07.64.

PARIS — Three-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon failed in her bid Thursday to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes. Kipyegon, the Olympic 1,500-meter gold medalist from Kenya, ...

When I started training for my first half marathon this year, I didn’t think that the run/walk method would have anything to do with my race day strategy. If anything, I thought that I just would use ...

The first time I ever ran for the sake of running—not between bases during a softball game or to avoid being tagged “it” at recess—was for the Presidential Fitness Test, a set of fitness assessments ...

Scientists modeled what it would take for a woman to run the mile in under four minutes. NPR's A Martinez talks with researcher Rodger Kram about the prospects for women's world record holder Faith ...

Today is the 68th anniversary of an historic achievement by a Cal athlete. On June 1, 1957, Cal junior Don Bowden ran the mile in 3 minutes, 58.7 seconds to become the first American to break the ...

Faith Kipyegon’s bid to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes — which she will attempt Thursday in Paris — began in essence about nine months ago while she visited the Nike campus ...