Study participants who completed a 3km treadmill time trial in a state of hypohydration were 6 per cent slower on average.
A hike through Italy’s soaring Dolomites is an occasionally terrifying reminder of our fleeting time on Earth, but comes with some jaw-dropping views.
Having a gentle jog before may be just as effective as a plyometric workout and may help athletes retain vital glyocen stores for longer.
Kenyan marathon specialist Lukas Wambua Muteti understands why two of his compatriots might have allowed a Chinese rival to win the Beijing Half Marathon.
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir sets a new women’s-only mark of 2 hrs, 16 mins and 16 secs, while Alexander Mutiso Munyao pulls away to beat Ethiopian legend Kenenisa Bekele.
Head coach Andrew Wright believes Jason Ng’s main challenger for Olympic qualification, Ayan Beisenbayev, is wilting under the pressure of the Paris chase.
Trail running and taking up martial arts reduced insomnia and anxiety for Hong Kong corporate communications worker Michelle Sum. Regular exercise was also shown to reduce insomnia in a recent study.
He Jie won after Kenyans Willy Mnangat and Robert Keter, plus Ethiopia’s Dejene Hailu Bikila, moved aside within sight of the finish line.
With Sunday’s race featuring Tigist Assefa, the world’s fastest female marathoner, and three of the four fastest women ever, event director Hugh Brasher has ‘no idea who is going to win’.
The Brazilian jiu jitsu athlete went from 0 303.313km in under a year at the Lululemon challenge to prove wrong those who thought it was beyond her.
Lucy Charles-Barclay faces elite competition in the tour’s second leg, with defending champion Ashleigh Gentle and Daniel Ryft among those to beat.
Sunmaya Budha says ‘thinking about past is not enough for me’ as she rises from rural Nepal to ultra stardom, and wants to continue to support her family.
Ng’s four-placed finish could see him push ahead in race for Paris, as Robin Elg finished sixth and Mark Yu eighth; Bailee Brown was best women’s finisher.
Robin Elg has been tasked with helping teammate Jason Ng chase Olympic qualifying points at this weekend’s event in mainland China.
Ng Chee Soon, who at 60 was the oldest Singaporean to swim across the English Channel in a relay team, explains how he trained for swimming in the cold, the dark and more for the long-distance race.
The race in China on Sunday will be her first triathlon of any distance since sustaining a nasty injury to her left middle finger last September.
Trail runners from the UK, Japan, Nepal, Taiwan and mainland China set out early on Friday across all four major Hong Kong trails, plus sections on public transport.
Testing found high levels of E coli along a section of the Thames that will be used for the historic rowing race between Oxford and Cambridge on Saturday.
The 38-year-old former world champion finished 11th in Hong Kong and is aiming to show it is possible to return to elite competition after time out of sport to start a family.
Team GB’s Sian Rainsley wins elite women’s race, only for local organisers to play Spanish national anthem at medal ceremony.
Katie Zaferes claims second after failing to finish two weeks ago, and says Paris Olympics will be her last Games. Sian Rainsley and Alberto Gonzalez Garcia claim first World Cup wins.