We all do it: book races because they sound great. Friends extol the virtues of this or that race and you go: “Ooh! I might try that.” I’m partly the “ooh” brigade and partly inner self-challenger. Let’s face it: we don’t choose easy races. Come to think of it, which races are easy? It’s called […]
In August 2017, a team of 3 women aged 25 to 30 embarked on a quest to discover their own boundaries in an immense, wild and remote territory. They covered 100 km in a few days through the Kuururjuaq National Park, along Mont d’Iberville and crossing the famous Koroc River… Read more on Qamaniq in […]
Words by Simon Freeman – Photography by James Carnegie and CineCloud Imagine running on a track high above the streets, gazing up at the inky black sky above According to the United Nations, more than half the world’s population now lives in cities. Billions of people crammed into busy, bustling, exciting, crowded concrete, brick and tarmac […]
Last lap of the track. The crowd yells “Zatopek! Zatopek! Zatopek!” Everyone gets to their feet and there is a deafening roar as the Czech locomotive crosses the line first to take gold yet again, the only athlete ever to have won three gold medals for the 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon during the same Olympic […]
According to David McCandless, author of Data is Beautiful: “By visualising information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map.” This is an apt description of what James Mason and Howard Smith do for runners (as well as cyclists and hikers) through their company Massif […]
“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” – Plautus If it is wine (or perhaps beer – that’s fine too) and words you want in order to commemorate a running achievement, then Harkiran Kalsi is certainly worth talking to. She is an illustrator with a bright, bold style, a dislike of white […]
This article was originally featured in issue #1 of Like the Wind Magazine. Words and photography by Ian Corless. It starts weeks, no, months before. Research on course profiles, terrain, altitude, distance and location. You can’t just turn up at an event and expect to cover it well. Just as a runner trains and prepares, […]
This article was originally featured in issue #1 of Like the Wind Magazine. Will Cockerell, author of The 50 Greatest Marathon Races of All Time, has his heroes. But rather than simply picking favourites, Cockerell examines the mindset and approach that set these particular runners apart from the crowd. Emil Zatopek During the 1950s, the […]
This article originally featured in issue #1 of Like the Wind Magazine. When I said I was going to run a 24-hour race, the reaction of most non-runners was: “Why would you want to do that?” Some runners understood, but when I added the words “round a one-kilometre loop”, even they tended to recoil in […]
This piece was originally featured in issue #1 of Like the Wind Magazine. Toes numb, fingers froze, Eyes focused, the gun goes. Surging forwards, girls en masse, The ones at the front – a different class. Spikes fly, heart rate quickens, Around the course, the mud thickens. Elbows out, through the pack, Breathing heavy, unwilling […]