Like the Wind Storytelling
In the background, but not forgotten
As Caleb Olson jogged around the track at Placer High School to win the 2025 Western States Endurance Run, dozens of photographers and filmmakers followed him while the crowd on the infield and in the bleachers roared in celebration.
In it for the Long Haul
The first time Fuzhao Xiang went to Chamonix for Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), it wasn’t just the speed or grit of the top female finishers that inspired her — it was their age.
Raise the Bar
There is a moment in Raise the Bar – the new film by Hilary Yang and Carrie Highman, made in partnership with HOKA – when a runner crosses the finish line at the Western States Endurance Run, collapses onto her back, and looks up at Abby Hall. Exhausted, wrecked, completely spent, she manages one question: “Did you win?”
The Space Between – How Gravel Running Is Rewriting The Rules
There’s a turn you’ve probably taken without thinking about it. Away from the pavement, onto something looser – a forest path, a canal towpath, a dirt road that curls off behind the park.
Go Feel Free
Scandinavia is a quiet, unassuming part of the world. Sparsely populated – outside of the big cities of Sweden, Norway and Denmark – it’s a land of forests, towering sea cliffs and the midnight sun, when summer days last for 24 hours.
The Valley Holds
Not every iconic race starts with a grand vision. Some just start with a mountain, a path, and enough people willing to run uphill. What keeps drawing the world’s runners –
Lessons Learned
Quoting T.S. Eliot might seem an odd choice when trying to explain why an elite trail runner carried a feeling of unfinished business for more than a decade before coming back to redeem himself in the race that had tripped him up so badly early in his career.
Raising the Bar
In August 2025, Jazmine Lowther set both the supported and unsupported Fastest Known Time (FKT) for women on the Grand Teton — the tallest peak in the Teton Range of Wyoming, which towers at 13,776 feet. Supported, she ran the route in 3h51m12s. Then, one week later (and just hours before a 12pm flight out of Jackson, Wyoming), she set the unsupported record in 4h6m58s.
Put to the Test
It’s almost inevitable for athletes to encounter difficulties during a run. Running, after all, is a sport centred around problem solving: runners are always navigating issues presented by weather, nutrition, mental and physical fatigue — and many other little nuisances that make the sport as much of a puzzle as it is a pleasure.