Jezebel: Running

Worth It: A Sports Bra To Keep Unruly Boobs At Bay

Erin Gloria Ryan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:50:00 EST

Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »

Preparing For The Victoria's Secret Show Is Not 'Like Training For A Marathon,' Since Runners Eat Solids

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:20:00 EST

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Is training for the Victoria's Secret runway show actually just like training for a marathon? Well, no, it's not, but the show's stylist sure seems to think it is. More »

Couple Gets Married While Running The New York City Marathon

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:35:00 EST

The Thighs Runneth Over

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:20:00 EST

The men's leaders in the New York City Marathon cross the Pulaski Bridge running toward the borough of Queens on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011, in New York. The winner, Geoffrey Mutai, of Kenya, is at center rear, in green. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) More »

Firehiwot Dado Of Ethiopia Wins NYC Marathon

Cassie Murdoch — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:35:00 EST

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 06: Firehiwot Dado of Ethiopia celebrates with Buzunesh Deba of Ethiopia after finishing in first and second place in the Women's Division of the 42nd ING New York City Marathon in Central Park on November 6, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) More »

Why Women Runners Are Punk Rock

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:25:00 EDT

In 1961, Julia Chase-Brand was a 19-year-old sophomore at Smith College when she did the unthinkable: register to run a 4.75 mile road race alongside men. She was met with derision, condescension, and paternal concern from the public. Running for longer than half a mile, after all, would be detrimental to her femininity, threaten her future fertility, and upend gender roles that were there for a reason. Running while female, until surprisingly recently, was among the most righteous and rebellious things a gal could do. More »

Worth It: Athletic Socks So Comfy, You'll Forget You Have Feet

Erin Gloria Ryan — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:30:00 EDT

Woman Gives Birth After Finishing Marathon, Makes Us Feel Lazy

Erin Gloria Ryan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:40:00 EDT

A Chicago-area woman commemorated her 39th week of pregnancy by running and walking the Chicago marathon yesterday. And then giving birth. More »

Women Who Run Marathons Alongside Men No Longer Allowed to Set World Records

Erin Gloria Ryan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:15:17 EDT

In 2003, Britain's Paula Radcliffe finished the London Marathon in 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 25 seconds, the fastest time ever registered by a woman running the 26.2 mile race. Radcliffe's performance that day has been hailed as one of the greatest individual performances in the history of sports, but as of January 1 of next year, that record will be wiped from the annals of marathon world records. Why? Because the London Marathon allows women to run alongside male pacemakers, and officials from the International Association of Athletics Federations have decided that running alongside these men makes women artificially faster. More »

Worth It: Running Shoes to Help You Go The Distance

Erin Gloria Ryan — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:35:59 EDT

Sarah Palin Takes Second In Half-Marathon

Anna North — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:45:00 EDT

Sarah Palin ran in the "Jump Right in and Run" half-marathon Sunday in Storm Lake, Iowa, and took second place with a time of 1 hour, 46 minutes, and 10 seconds. She ran under her maiden name, Sarah Heath, and didn't announce that she'd be running. Unfortunately, she probably won't be able to use such stealth tactics in the presidential race. More »

Consider the Marathon

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:18:00 EDT

It's early June, and that means that I've once again set up a two-basket system in my tornado-in Target mess of a bedroom. One basket contains clean running clothes that I don't even bother to fold. The other, the dirty clothes that I've run in. I'm training for the 2011 Chicago Marathon, my second marathon, and I've begun increasing my mileage in preparation for the final 17 weeks before the race on October 9. More »

America's Oldest Sprinter Running Strong At 95

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:23:00 EST

95-year-old Ida Keeling, a great-grandmother from the Bronx, is America's oldest sprinter. Last week, she set a world record in the 95-and-up age group (?!). More »

Ecstatic Minnie Mouse Photobombs Half Marathon Winner

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:10:00 EST

Lake Buena Vista, FL, Jan 8: Jenny Scherer, 22, of Delavan, WI, crosses the finish line to win the women's division of the Walt Disney World Half Marathon. Scherer completed the 13.1-mile course with an unofficial time of 1:17:05. More »

Ten Ways To Get Fit On A Tiny Budget

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:40:00 EST

Last week, I asked readers for advice on how to start working out without throwing a ton of coin at an expensive gym membership, and did you ever come through. More »

Fast And Relentless Wins The Race

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:50:00 EST

Chunxiu Zhou of China wins Gold in the Woman's Marathon at Triathlon Venue during day fifteen of the 16th Asian Games. (Photo by Hannah Johnston/Getty Images)

A Call to Arms (And Abs, Quads, Calves, and Shoulders)

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:30:00 EST

I bought a women's fitness magazine the other day and almost every page equated fitness with losing weight. Get bikini ready in seven days! Lose 12 pounds by tomorrow by doing these three exercises! Hungry? Eat seven almonds! Fuck that. More »

Thighlights Pit Kenyan Versus Kenyan

Katie Luscombe — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:52:00 EDT

[New Delhi, October 12: Kenya's Sylvia Kibet, left, and Vivian Cheruiyot, right, go to cross the finish line in the Women's 5000m final during the Commonwealth Games. Cheruiyot took the gold, but they're tied for champion thighlights. Image via AP.]

Women's Marathons Use Tiaras, Hot Firefighters To Keep Men Away

Anna North — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:38:00 EDT

Men are entering and winning women's marathons — and to keep them out, the race organizers are resorting to some pretty sexist tactics. More »

Caster Semenya Wins Comeback Race

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:47:00 EDT

South African runner Caster Semenya made her triumphant return to running last night at a small athletics meeting in Finland, which she easily won. "I was a little bit nervous because it's been a long time not competing," she said. More »

Caster Semenya Gets Back To Work

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:16:00 EDT

[Pretoria, July 8. South African track and field athlete Caster Semenya attends a training session in South Africa]

Semenya Will Return To Running In June

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:20:00 EDT

Caster Semenya's lawyers told a South African television station yesterday that the results of her tests are in, and they prove that she can compete as a woman. They say she should have been cleared as early as February. [AP] More »

Human Barbie Injects Daughter With Botox • Gov. Paterson Hoped To "Downplay" Domestic Violence

Katy Kelleher — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:00 EST

• Last year, Hannah Burge, then 15, became Britain's youngest Botox user when her mother, the "Human Barbie" and record-holder for most surgically altered, injected her with the toxin. "Appearance is important to me," Burge said. She continued: More »

What Goes Up Must Come Down

Anna Holmes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:10:00 EST

[New York, February 2. Image via Getty]

The Spring Of Queens

Anna Holmes — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:10:00 EST

[New York, November 1. Image via Getty]

"I Hope Semenya Will Come Out Of This Better Than I Did"

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:20:00 EDT

Santhi Soundarajan knows what Caster Semenya is going through, because in 2006, she went through a similar ordeal. "She should not abandon the fight," she says of the South African track and field star. More »

Coach: Gender Concerns Reasonable Because Runner "Looks Like A Man"

Anna North — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Unfortunately, South African runner Caster Semenya isn't the first exceptional female athlete to have her femaleness questioned. But her coach's comments make her case one of the most upsetting. More »

Sarah Palin Breaks "Flag Code" In Runner's World Magazine

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:30:00 EDT

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Have you heard? Everyone's favorite governor has an interview published online Tuesday for Runner's World magazine. Alongside inane questions for the former VP hopeful, there is a hilarious and ridiculous photo shoot in which Palin (maybe) disrespects the American flag. More »

A Need For Speed

Anna Holmes — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Manchester, May 17. Image via Getty]

Running With Cervixes: Women Overcome Hurdles

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:30:00 EST

As recently as the 1970s women were banned from participating in marathons. Now, middle-aged women who were discouraged from the sport when they were younger are taking up running for the first time. More »

This Sunday, Joy Johnson, 81, will run her...

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:30:00 EDT

This Sunday, Joy Johnson, 81, will run her 21st consecutive New York City marathon. Johnson is the defending champion in the 80-and-over age group, a title she has held for 5 of the past 11 years. In this Wall Street Journal video, Johnson says that when her time started slipping a year ago, rather than accepting that she was slowing down she decided to train harder. So far, she's shaved an hour off her time. [The Wall Street Journal] More »

Sanya Richards, Teammates Come From Behind To Win 4X400 Relay

Jessica G. — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Despite being edged out and hugely disappointed by her second place finish in the 400 meter race, American sprinter Sanya Richards managed to overtake the Russians and help the U.S. women win gold as the anchor of the 4X400 relay on Saturday. (Clip of the last two legs of the race is at left.) The night after her silver medal win, says Richards, "I couldn't stop thinking about it. It's hard. I worked for four years." But after Saturday's relay victory, Richards felt vindicated. "At least now I have something positive to think about. I have to say it was good," she says. We won more medals on the women's side in how many years? I'm really proud of the team and the fact we ended up on a high note". More »

Golden Girls: Roqaya Al-Gassra, Aleksandra Fedoriva

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:50:00 EDT

Shalane Flanagan, Mom Cheryl Have American Television Audience In Tears

Anna Holmes — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:20:00 EDT

Even though, as the New Yorker's Anthony Lane aptly puts it this week, "what NBC chooses to broadcast is not the Olympic Games," we've got to work with what we've got. That goes for the footage of Friday's women's 10,000 meter race, which was won by Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba but focused primarily on the event's bronze medal winner, the U.S.A.'s Shalane Flanagan. Flanagan, whose win secured her an American record, is the second American woman to medal in the 10,000k race and her mom, onetime women's marathon world record holder Cheryl Treworgy, was in the stands...and in disbelief. More »

Ladies Need More Ladies' Rooms • Japanese Women Embrace Running

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Kathyrn Anthony of the American Restroom Association wants a nationwide law requiring architects to build more toilets for women than they do for men. "Until men have menstrual periods, until men get pregnant, or until men breast-feed or have babies, we'll always have a need for potty parity," she says. • Cartoonist Lynda Barry (who also wrote the amazing novel Cruddy) has a new book called What It Is. • In a study of 866 blue-collar workers, women and minorities were more prone to file grievances, although filing one was not necessarily effective. • 80% of scavengers in Delhi are women. • There is now a blood and urine test which will diagnose pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. • The number of Japanese who run more than twice a week is steadily increasing and most of the new runners are young women. • A new book by Juliet Miller explores creative destructiveness in women. "The gardener who concretes over the wilderness may be fed up with doing most of the nurturing in the family. Burning the dinner may mean wanting to change the world." • The country of Turkey is grappling with a culture of domestic violence; 1 in 3 married women is a victim of abuse. • A victim of alleged gangrape tore off her clothes in the police station because she was so frustrated that the accused were not being charged. • If mothers were paid for cooking, cleaning and caring for their families, they could easily earn a six figure salary. • Holy cow! This bovine is as big as an elephant! More »