Like the Wind Storytelling
Forgotten Champion
What I love most about running? Going fast. I am sure this is the case for almost all of us: the desire to do better, to run faster, to gain that ever-elusive PB. After several years of running I have come to value the running community.
LtW USA: A message from the team…
Cross Country with Rickey Gates
Running can provide experiences, self expression, emotional healing and more. It’s just that unlike Rickey Gates most people don’t need to run across a continent in search of them.
Seba Vandermolen: Via PanAm
The long run is a fixture in most runners’ weeks. But how long is long. How about from the northern extreme of Alaska to the southern tip of Argentina?
The Legend of Alain Mimoun
In Like the Wind issue #8 runner and author Pat Butcher told the story of a man whose running destiny would forever be intertwined with perhaps the greatest distance runner of all time, Emil Zatopek.
The New York Pioneer Club – the Forgotten Heroes of Running
In the current edition of Like the Wind – LtW#25 – we tell the story of a remarkable group of runners who used track, road and ultra running as a way to create hope and pride in young people treated as second class citizens in society …
Writing and Running with Rose George
Rose George is one such person. Rose has written for the Guardian, Independent, New York Times, London Review of Books as well as for Like the Wind. She is also the author of a number of books …
I Dream of Running
I dream. I dream about running in the mountains. Running free, with great vistas before me. I run strong on the uphills, powering though each rise and turn. I dream of running fast and free on the descents, skipping from corner to corner …
Down from this Cloud
The UTMB tells a different story for every one of the 2,000 runners who toe its start line on the Friday night of one of the busiest, but most incredible weekends in Chamonix.