Marathon
Stories, insights, and experiences from marathon running.
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.
Power to Push
This is a story – like so many running stories – that is about challenge of distances. One of the distances in this story is 7,000 miles, or thereabouts. Another is 3,200 miles.
Power to Push: A Journey Towards Inclusion
Issue #45 of Like the Wind features the beautiful story of Shaun and Shamus Evans, an athlete duo who are on a mission to break the stigma around disability. They ran the Boston Marathon together in 2024, and this year completed their second World Major – Tokyo.
Finish Lines
Finish lines are special places. Sometimes they’re just a streak of chalk across a stretch of tarmac. Other times they take the form of a towering construction, complete with digital clocks and colourful carpet.
Run for Freedom
Nike! Nike! Nenikekamen!” “Victory! Victory! Rejoice, we conquer!” 490BC. Pheidippides, a messenger, finally arrives at the end of his 26-mile run from a battlefield in Marathon to the Acropolis in Athens to deliver news of an unexpected Greek victory over Persian invaders.
Still waiting for the change
Just after 11.30am on 5 November 2006, Samia Akbar took a last right turn in Central Park and raced towards the finish line of the 37th annual New York City Marathon. As 12th woman, she would cross the finish line – in her first marathon – in 2h34m14s.
Dave Goes West
Loud Dave (aka Dave Cook) is Still Quite Loud, as it goes, and the central figure in Dave Goes West, an independent film charting a fundraising challenge to run 10 marathons in 10 days up the coast of Western Ireland …
What he talks about when he talks about running
It’s late February; I’m standing outside the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building. Geisha girls are readying the starting flag, helicopters are circling, thousands of people are jostling for position on the track and a typhoon warning is in place.
What a Difference a Day Makes (or, How I Became an Elite Athlete for 24 hours)
Only the most talented runners receive star treatment. But what if, by some quirk of fate, it actually happened to you? It did to one runner.