When you’re training for your first marathon or other competition, you obviously want to focus on increasing your endurance by alternating long runs with easy runs, intervals and rest days. You need ...

Tired of being sidelined by runner's diarrhea? Here's what experts recommend to get you back on the road. Rerouting your planned run, soiling your fave run shorts, and leaking like a water balloon are ...

I was halfway across the Queensboro Bridge when a not-so-unfamiliar feeling hit me: I had to take a shit. I was 1.5 miles into my run, and I had emptied the tank just before I left my apartment. As I ...

It's one of the most embarrassing issues a runner can experience, yet everyone has been plagued by it at one point or another: You’re enjoying a run, or crushing a race, and just as you start really ...

Running a marathon is no small feat. Athletes can expect to cover between 50-60,000 steps, burn over 3,000 calories and expel multiple liters of sweat to keep cool. Marathons and other long distance ...

Runner’s gut — which can include cramping, nausea and a sudden urge to “go” — can plague many runners during intense exercise. Here’s why, and how to avoid it. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York ...

You’re in the middle of a big race when, out of nowhere, your stomach starts to churn. Instead of focusing on crossing the finish line with a new PR, you’re now worried about just making it there ...