Elite & professional athletes
Profiles and stories of top-level runners.
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.
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.
Shaping new futures
On race day, it looks like the simplest story in sport: one runner, one trail, one finish line. A lone figure moving through mountains, stripped to the essentials, chasing something intensely personal.
The Art of Self Expression
In “See Those Flowers?” a portrait of Martin Kern strives to resolve the question of whether running is art. The answer is not as simple as it first appears.
Driven By a Dream
Habtom Samuel doesn’t give up when things get hard. Even when a race becomes impossibly difficult, when he is literally knocked down, when others would surely quit, the idea of surrender doesn’t occur to him.
Why We Run – Jacob Adkin
Running started as a game – racing ahead on family walks and reaching summits before anyone else. Jacob runs for connection, the challenge, and discovery.
From Humble Beginnings
In 1949, after the Second World War, a man living in a country shattered by conflict carried with him a vision of the good that sport could do for his nation.
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
There is an African proverb well-used in the running world: to go fast, you should go alone. But to go far, you should go together. But what if you want to go far and fast?