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Itâs the first Five Things Running of October!
The leaves are falling, the mornings are crisp - and I am back to running again. I do not want to jinx it, but I am back to running my typical 10km runs. I am still a lot slower than before, but I am running and itâs pain-free. It feels sooooo good!
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âRunning is a Paradox.â Two Cardiologists on What You Need to Know About Cardiac Events in Runners
As trail runners, many of us assume that our fitness protects us from heart disease, which makes the news about Browning so soon after Simpsonâs own cardiac event understandably confusing and alarming. To get to the bottom of the relationship between running and our hearts, we spoke with Simpsonâs cardiac electrophysiologist, Albert Sun, MD, Director of the Ventricular Arrhythmias Program and the Inherited Arrhythmias Program at Duke University Medical Center, and Bradley Lander, MD, Director of the Sports Cardiology Center and the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute.
âTrail runners and endurance athletes need to understand that your sport does not make you immune to these heart conditions or cardiac events,â Lander tells Trail Runner.
I honestly had no idea that this could be an issue for endurance athletes.
âMy Bodyâs Used to Itâ: This Full-Time Lawyer Ran an Ultramarathon Every Single Day for 1,000 Days
Shannon-Leigh Litt occasionally listened to legal papers while running more than 31 miles before work. Because when your morning run takes six hours and your day job involves criminal law, some multitasking is understandably unavoidable.
Kicking off on January 1, 2024, Litt decided to run an ultra every single day. Yes, you read that correctly. She even deliberately went an extra kilometer beyond Guinnessâs 50K minimum just to give herself some wiggle room. By day 1,000, the 47-year-old New Zealander had logged roughly 52,000 kilometers (32,311 miles) and secured the womenâs record for the most consecutive days running an ultramarathon distance.
I find these kind of stories so amazing and impressive. I wouldnât be able to fit the time to run 50km every day into my schedule to begin with, and then there is the part about getting enough rest and sleep and so on. Oh, and then there is obviously the fitness aspect to be able to leasurely running that distanceâŠ
27-year-old started a run club to meet new peopleânow his NYC side hustle brings in $640K a year
Akhibi, 27, originally founded Peak and Pace as a run club in 2024 while working in algorithmic trading sales for investment bank J.P. Morgan. Running with Peak and Pace is always free, and its larger-scale parties typically require a $15 to $25 ticket, he says. Almost entirely through those parties, the company brought in over $640,000 in 2025 revenue, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.
Not every party is profitable, but the company operates overall at a 15% profit margin, says Akhibi, who currently works full-time as the head of partnerships at San Francisco-based AI robotics lab Grounded Superintelligence. He invests the profits back into the side hustle instead of taking a second salary, he says.
I guess this will spark a new wave of run clubs, even more commercially focused than before.
The Beer Mile race, a U.S. Olympian and a historic doping scandal: âIt felt a bit disrespectfulâ
Eight women with a cold beer in one hand and a bottle opener in the other are crouching at the start line of an athletics track.
This is the Beer Mile World Classic, a race where competitors have to drink a bottle of beer every 400m. If you vomit, you are penalized.
It is the 12th edition of the event, which is meant to be a fun celebration of athletic and beer-chugging prowess. But on the day the womenâs field assembles in eastern Cologne in September, a cloud is hanging over proceedings.
Interesting idea. Then again, they probably served Kölsch in Cologne and that is just not even close to beer.
Meet Run.Ai. Finally, You Donât Have to Be There.
For too long, runners have had to bear the indignity of participating in their own lives. Getting dressed. Going outside. Feeling the first cold air of autumn enter their lungs and experiencing the peculiar ache of loving a season whose beauty comes from things dying. Finishing your run and uploading it to Strava. Run.Ai streamlines that cumbersome process into a single click. Sure, running might make you âfeel alive,â but should you really be performing that task manually?
Using our proprietary experience model, trained exclusively on David Goggins and a bunch of antique books that we uploaded, destroyed, and then decided werenât actually that helpful, Run.AI improves the run user experience by eliminating the onerous âexperienceâ bit. Beta versions incorporated poetry, but were removed due to bugs and the agent gaining sentience and questioning the business model in iambic pentameter. Run.AI can complete your run, appreciate the morning light, and quantify a fleeting sense of belonging in an indifferent universe, all while you remain available on Microsoft Teams.
Haha, nicely done.
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Now, go running!
â Nico
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