Features
These stories showcase the heart of Like the Wind: powerful storytelling that explores why we run. From intimate portraits to expansive journeys, this category brings together the magazine’s most engaging narrative writing. Whether delivered through immersive Long Reads or concise Short Stories, these features capture the emotion, culture, and human experience of running in all its forms.
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.
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 –
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Sport, at the top level, is all about controlling the controllables. The best athletes in any discipline have mastery over as many of the different elements that make up their sport as possible. Perfect preparation, rest, rituals, kit choices, psychology, psyching out opponents… it’s all a game of bending reality to the athlete’s will.
Back On Track
In the Japan National Stadium, there is an architectural detail that’s hard to spot when the space is packed with 65,000 athletics fans. But in quiet moments, when the stadium is empty, the spattering of different-coloured seats is striking – and that is no accident. There is a good reason for why the chairs were designed this way. Two good reasons, in fact.
Being the Change
Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc (also known as the UTMB) is like the Super Bowl or FA Cup Final of trail racing. It brings together many of the best trail runners in the world, who want to test their mettle on the iconic route through the Alps.
Celebrate Running Dads
We’ve curated a thoughtful selection of gifts to celebrate the runner in your life and bring a smile to his face.
With Love
This poem first appeared in issue #18 of Like the Wind. Words by Stephen Howell – Illustration by Rob Flowers.
Hang on a minute, lads. I’ve got a great idea
Nine hours into our adventure, I found myself sobbing into my soaked gloves. Tears streaked my face as I realised what we’d taken on. As group leader, I was supposed to be the positive energy.