Record-smasher Josh Kerr said his special "Hyperion 222" spikes make “You feel like you can’t slow down”

OH MY GOD.
JOSH KERR.
3:42.66 MILE.
WORLD RECORD.
THE ATMOSPHERE WAS DEAFENING. #LondonDL pic.twitter.com/VCej8ld8m3

— Owen (@_OwenM_) July 18, 2026

"Inside Josh Kerr’s mile world-record attempt: Bespoke spikes, speed suits and 800m races"

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Guess how much Adidas's new marathon record-smashing sneakers cost (and then double your guess); meanwhile the tennis tournament was decimated

Worth noting that four of the top five in today's London Marathon -- including the first two men in history under two hours -- were wearing adidas' new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3.

It weighs under 100g -- about 30% lighter than adidas' previous supershoe.https://t.co/eLvoAyobAh pic.twitter.com/Uzn6hsXny5

— Jonathan Gault (@jgault13) April 26, 2026

TWO men broke the 2-hour barrier for the marathon today in London.

Both were wearing a super-light, 3.4-ounce shoe that has yet to be released. Adidas' head of running told me how they made it:https://t.co/yB2jGnHTGE

— Rachel Bachman (@Bachscore) April 26, 2026

The LA Marathon leader ran the wrong way, too

What a wild ending to the LA marathon. My mom was able to catch what led to the cinematic ending. The leader went the wrong way. Woman impedes his path, runs to his left and forces him into the middle of the fork + orange shirt waving him right + motorcade goes right at the fork. pic.twitter.com/t5HSJwrDPv

— Carlitos (@cptn_carlos) March 9, 2026

The difference in the race.

US Half Marathon Championship in Atlanta "ends in chaos as lead runners guided in wrong direction"

Guardian:

With less than two miles to go in the women’s race, Jess McClain had a significant lead over Ednah Kurgat and Emma Hurley when the guide vehicle took the trio off course.

The "winner" goes home with $20k:

"I don't know what I was thinking," a perplexed Born told Race Results Weekly.  "I crossed and I just thought they had the tape out for fun because I didn't know where I was.  I thought I was in fourth.  I was so far back that I didn't see them make the wrong turn."

Less than a year ago:

2,000 People Ran the Atlanta Marathon. Then They Found Out It Was 554 Feet Short

...

“Unfortunately, for the purpose of qualifying for the Boston Marathon, we’re unable to accept results from races which are measured or run short

Replay of Faith Kipyegon's attempt to day to break the 4-minute mile (with Nike pulling out all the stops to help her)

The effort included developing a 3D printed sports bra using "FlyWeb":

some wearers reported being able to feel airflow on the chest for the first time while running, a sensation made possible by the garment’s open, breathable zones. “Most women have never experienced that while running,” she said. “We don’t even think about it because it’s just not something we’ve ever expected to feel.”

Ato Boldon's detailed, brutal explanation for why the American men 4x100 blew the first handoff

First the race, and then the analysis at 5:00.

Short documentary about the Antarctic Ice Marathon

Breathtaking scenery at Union Glacier on the Antarctic Ice Marathon course. #AntarcticIceMarathon #Antarctica #7ContinentsMarathonClub #running #marathon #extrememarathon #7continents #unionglacier @AntarcticIceMar pic.twitter.com/Wtpmst6AzZ

— IceMarathon (@AntarcticIceMar) October 27, 2021

2021 Antarctic Ice Marathon video. If we can operate a marathon in Antarctica we can do it anywhere. Keep the faith. Happy Christmas & New Year. @AntarcticIceMar #antarcticicemarathon #running #athletics #marathon #Antarctica pic.twitter.com/eFF9SSB9m9

— Richard Donovan (@RichardDonovan7) December 24, 2021

The winner of the Vienna Marathon was disqualified for wearing forbidden shoes

AP:

Organizers said [he] had registered another shoe that met race rules, but he switched to the shoes he had used in training to run the marathon.

...

the soles of his shoes were 1 centimeter thicker than the maximum 4 centimeters allowed.

The difference between the 2 shoes pic.twitter.com/seclMxK4qU

— Cuan Walker (@runwithcuan) September 12, 2021

The disgraced marathon runner's Wikipedia entry has been updated

Thoughts on Amdouni knocking over an entire row of water before taking the last one? pic.twitter.com/qrPaSzxLBW

— Ben St Lawrence (@bennysaint) August 8, 2021

Wikipedia:

He made his debut appearance at the Olympics representing France at the 2020 Summer Olympics and competed in the men's marathon event, where he finished 17th. At the 28km mark of the race Amdouni was filmed knocking over a table's worth of water bottles before grasping the last bottle, denying bottles to competitors behind him and leading charges of bad sportsmanship from observers, although he claimed that the bottles were wet and slippery making them difficult to grasp.

This Olympic marathoner may or may not have sabotaged his competition and @Foxworth24 had thoughts 😤 pic.twitter.com/p89P1BZYz8

— Highly Questionable (@HQonESPN) August 9, 2021

That runner can't even say with certainty that she ate a pork burrito

WSJ:

In the two days since, however, a new fact came to light that muddies her explanation: [the runner] herself isn’t sure she ate the pork burrito in question. 

[The runner]’s lawyer...confirmed in a Wednesday interview something first reported by the website LetsRun: that [the runner] actually ordered a carne asada burrito, not pork, the day before her drug test. They believe [the runner]was either given the wrong order or a burrito that included pork, [her lawyer] said. They don’t know for sure.

[The runner]’s initial statement didn’t mention that she ordered a carne asada, or beef, burrito, not pork. In the interview, her lawyer said the order was beside the point because the anti-doping lab’s analysis wasn’t done correctly. 

Meanwhile, she "will be allowed to run at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials while any appeals she files are pending."

"The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever"

The condensed version:

this sounds like a fucking Wes Anderson movie pic.twitter.com/vV16WSrc07

— Canadian Idiot is Stressed (@SailorHannibal) April 14, 2020

And a Smithsonian Magazine article.

Ten funny tweets

A lot to love about this Nike CNY ad pic.twitter.com/OOBCcjvUEC

— lily buttons (@lily_buttons) January 9, 2020

Love this girl at the Denver airport pic.twitter.com/reuItjGTOJ

— layajospe (@layajospe) January 8, 2020

The pizza joint I went to framed a hole in the wall in the men’s washroom and called it “Fragile Masculinity” pic.twitter.com/ZTxO2BsWMH

— Josh McConnell (@joshmcconnell) January 10, 2020

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.

— Madame Anthro ✨💀 (@madameanthro) January 10, 2020

The @NYTCooking comments continue to be on point pic.twitter.com/x7QAlPFmSP

— Laura J. Nelson 🦅 (@laura_nelson) January 11, 2020

off to see '1917' at Alamo Drafthouse! I think I'm gonna get the dulce de leche et decorum est milkshake and a "Butcher of Verdun" charcuterie plate. RIP to all those who got owned in the Great War, you are not forgotten

— The Discourse Lover (@Trillburne) January 12, 2020

Someone just reliably informed me that David Hyde Pierce and his husband have a portrait of Jane Leeves in their condo and I’m UNDONE

— Hope Rehak (@HopeRehak) January 12, 2020

tsa agent, with his hands on my waist: "these are some weird pants man..."

— I am Neil (@clineil_) January 9, 2020

pic.twitter.com/xIsxh279cD

— cute n squishy (@_Cute_n_Squish) December 7, 2019

Sneak 100%
(Unmute) pic.twitter.com/F7AtohmPVk

— Mr. Meowgi (@Mr_Meowwwgi) January 11, 2020

*More funny posts.

Nike's running shoes either are, or are not, likely to be banned

Runner's World:

Nike’s record-breaking running shoes to be banned

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Nike’s record breaking Vaporfly Next% shoes have adorned the feet of multiple marathon winners since their release in 2017. But according to speculation, they seem likely to be banned when the World Athletics announces new rules surrounding running shoes.

The shoes, worn by Kenya’s Brigid Kosgei when she broke Paula Radcliffe’s women’s marathon record last year, are believed to make its wearers four per cent more efficient.

Guardian:

Nike shoes that have revolutionised marathon times unlikely to be banned

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The Guardian understands the group met again on Wednesday and intends to announce its findings by the end of the month. But sources suggest that, contrary to headlines about the shoes being banned, the issue remains under debate.

As things stand, the group’s emphasis appears more on putting limits to the future incarnations of the technology, which was first introduced in 2016, rather than restricting the Vaporfly shoes completely.

*Buy the Vaporfly Next% at Amazon.

All the asterisks attached to the sub-two hour marathon performance

Deadspin:

Kipchoge’s splits were remarkably precise, thanks in part to a rotating team of 36 pacemakers—many of them the world’s best distance runners—who ran in 7-person pockets around Kipchoge to keep him on schedule and shield him from the breeze. An electric timing car driving a controlled pace of 4:34 per mile projected green laser lines on the ground for them to follow. While he raced, Kipchoge was delivered energy gels and carbohydrate drinks by bicyclists riding alongside him. The bottles Kipchoge used were picked up after being discarded and weighed to determine exactly how much was consumed, and what his future intake should be.

...

The event was sponsored by British petrochemicals company Ineos and its billionaire owner Jim Ratcliffe, whose company’s foray into sports—Ratcliffe also sponsors cycling, sailing and soccer teams—has been criticized as a cynical attempt to distract from Ineos’s production of plastics and its plans to frack for natural gas in Britain.

Also this week:

Less than two weeks after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) handed down a four-year ban to Nike Oregon Project coach Alberto Salazar for three doping code violations, Nike has announced that they will be shuttering the team.

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In deciding USADA’s case against Salazar, two independent three-member arbitration panels found that Salazar “trafficked testosterone, a banned performance-enhancing substance, administered a prohibited IV infusion, and engaged in tampering to attempt to prevent relevant information about their conduct from being learned by USADA.”

Ten funny tweets

My favorite thing about Sha’Carri Richardson is that she always looks so unbothered crossing the finish line pic.twitter.com/xGa8mM0Y9J

— Jasmine (@JasmineLWatkins) June 9, 2019

the laugh at the end is all of us laughing at you, Madison Bumgarner (who once, by the way, dated a woman named Madison Bumgarner) pic.twitter.com/8Pf4NaGP8C

— Parakeet A. Cortes (@Ryan_Cortes) June 9, 2019

Uh 😳 pic.twitter.com/jToczqKOml

— Caroline McCarthy (@caro) June 9, 2019

‘look at all these people who are still alive!’ - my coworker reading reviews of the hotel

— maggie lee (@maggie44) June 7, 2019

Am getting a tattoo. Mum not pleased.

"How could you do this to your elderly mother?" she said Jewishly. "When you're old you'll regret it."

"It's to remind me of you," I said. "Every time I look at it I'll think, 'I should have listened to my mother'."

Game, set and match.

— Rebecca Levene (@BexLevene) June 10, 2019

this is also true for ukraine https://t.co/GHQS6GlzO6

— so, phia (@pastoralcomical) June 9, 2019

This is very high on my bucket list: I want to be the extra that gets violently pushed into a fruit cart during a chase scene in a police procedural. This is 100% true.

— Joe Lamour ☕❤ (@lamour) June 6, 2019

Kawhi daps when he wants 🙅‍♂️😅 @npowell2404 pic.twitter.com/BChRCjEAR0

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) June 6, 2019

oh god
oh fuck pic.twitter.com/5n92bAeR5R

— フグ (@qwertxzy) June 4, 2019

Saw this on Facebook this morning and the noise this cat makes SENT ME pic.twitter.com/mGUlCvOl4w

— tree hugging hippie 🌈 (@veganjocelyn) June 3, 2019

*More funny posts.

Ten funny tweets

I’m 35 and have not yet received a call to adventure and am starting to worry I’m not a protagonist

— MichaelMeirSaltzman (@JustAddSaltz) May 14, 2019

Madori-kun, a wrestler with the floor plan of a studio apartment for a face, is the mascot of Sanpuku Real Estate Agency in Japan. pic.twitter.com/N88oehNkhk

— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots) May 13, 2019

Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
Nigerians 🇳🇬: pic.twitter.com/wR4HGnWgZl

— Chop Daily (@ChopDaily) May 13, 2019

Everyone got hit in the eye, apparently pic.twitter.com/HJZcZ8nVHj

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 13, 2019

Black girl magic at its finest 💪🏾🙌🏾 Get dunked on pic.twitter.com/UprZdh3C6y

— 247 Live Culture (@247LC) May 12, 2019

Infinite Tucker pulls out a track & field rarity — a dive — to beat out his teammate (H/T @steph_steeples) pic.twitter.com/oJVc2TWfcU

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 12, 2019

My group chat style is that I can smell when someone has muted the thread and I'll remove them then instantly add them back, which voids their mute. It's like the reverse soft-block of iMessage. I'm also a very annoying friend. https://t.co/2NI2hDvAeD

— Katie Notopoulos 🎈 (@katienotopoulos) May 14, 2019

Vigo The Carpathian clearly does not approve of me walking around ILM trying out this Snapchat filter pic.twitter.com/obCYHK3rR9

— shawn kelly (@Shawnimator) May 15, 2019

may you tackle Tuesday with the determination of Peggy hauling an entire tree limb up a small hill pic.twitter.com/xv6zMGjn46

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 14, 2019

for those keeping score at home, this still isn't her record limb. flashback to November 2016: pic.twitter.com/E33DmYTnor

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) May 14, 2019

*More funny posts.

Ten funny tweets

Im about to go see Thanos and Friends Part 2. I drew these from memory pic.twitter.com/lOlQIUuN8J

— conner fawcett (@thebadbucket) April 28, 2019

My man got left hanging awkwardly *twice* pic.twitter.com/IRTySGnmd2

— CJ Fogler (@cjzero) April 28, 2019

I just found out this is how they X-ray small children and I can’t stop laughing pic.twitter.com/crNsjYhtpK

— Professor Finesser (@mowziii) April 27, 2019

Yeah avengers endgame was good but I found out my boyfriend is a movie clapper so at what cost

— Tinderella (@ballerguy) April 26, 2019

There's a robot inside the Changwon NC Park that plays chants and shows today's lineup. #KBO pic.twitter.com/tJAgPkxruo

— Sung Min Kim (@sung_minkim) April 28, 2019

A for effort pic.twitter.com/agrX8MB3mR

— Human Person (@radiationmouth) April 27, 2019

[invention of fish net stockings]

fisherman 1: Help! I got caught in the fish net!

fisherman 2: is it just me or is dave looking a little ... hot?

fisherman 3: no dave is definitely being hot rn

— tommy bayer (@TommmyBear) October 24, 2018

A little thing in Australia I love: how noisy the birds are! For example: This common Adelaide Magpie sounds like a dial up modem connecting (and they're everywhere!) pic.twitter.com/SwMGRLNrh9

— Terry (@terrycavanagh) April 27, 2019

This is not what you need after 26.2 miles. pic.twitter.com/ZkmJftX0Hv

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) April 28, 2019

Big Ben guy was running the London Marathon for Alzheimer’s research. Here’s his donation link if you want to make his viral celebrity worthwhile https://t.co/q32FzMseMH pic.twitter.com/5q017Vr95s

— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) April 28, 2019

*More funny posts.

How long can you last on this treadmill that's set at the world record marathon pace?

How long could you last at Eliud Kipchoge's world record marathon pace? pic.twitter.com/eRA9SA3R1r

— Runner's World (@runnersworld) November 3, 2018

Yesterday's improbable comeback win by USC in the 4x400--they needed to win to claim the national championship

The @usc_track_field Women of Troy had to win the 4x400m to win the national championship.

WATCH WHAT #FIGHTON LOOKS LIKE! pic.twitter.com/BOrISxUXXq

— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) June 10, 2018

"In good weather, men typically drop out of [the Boston Marathon] at lower rates than women do, but this year, women fared better. Why"?

NYT:

The winning times for both men and women were the slowest since the 1970s, and the midrace dropout rate was up 50 percent overall from last year.

But finishing rates varied significantly by gender. For men, the dropout rate was up almost 80 percent from 2017; for women, it was up only about 12 percent. Overall, 5 percent of men dropped out, versus just 3.8 percent of women. The trend was true at the elite level, too.

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But at the same race in 2012, on an unusually hot 86-degree day, women also finished at higher rates than men, the only other occasion between 2012 and 2018 when they did.

Related:

Was this ad NOT supposed to be ominous as hell?

Run. Because of what's out there. pic.twitter.com/yJkk8j5tbr

— 𝕿𝖗𝖊𝖛𝖔𝖗 𝕳𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓@TCAF (@slimyswampghost) April 19, 2018