Abby Levene

Boulder

Senior Editor at Outside Magazine

Senior Editor at Women’s Running

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Articles

Gear Our Editors Loved in May 2025

1 week ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. April showers bring...May showers. And allergies, sweat (lots of sweat), and racing. At least that's the case for our running editors spread out from Colorado to California. Here's the running gear we've been using (and loving) as we clock the miles through puddles, past fields of wildflowers, and over race courses.
The 11 Best 2025 Memorial Day Sales for Running Gear

2 weeks ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene |Chris Foster

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. America: where a holiday to honor those who served also serves as an opportunity to honor buying stuff.
The Best Run Gear From REI's Big 2025 Anniversary Sale

3 weeks ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene |Chris Foster

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. With Memorial Day on the horizon-and the sales that inexplicably accompany a three-day holiday to honor those who died in service to their country-the only thing more American than saving money on things during an otherwise solemn occasion is jumping to the front of the line to do it.
Race Guide and How to Watch

3 weeks ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. The UTMB World Series is headed down under. From May 15-18, over 8,000 runners will test themselves at Ultra-Trail Australia by UTMB in the stunning Blue Mountains, New South Wales, for a chance to earn spots into the UTMB World Series Finals and to collect "running stones" for the lottery.
Nike Pegasus, Pegasus Plus, and Pegasus Premium Showdown

4 weeks ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Nike Pegasus fans, we have a problem. (Or as my running coach would tell me, an opportunity.)With the release of the Nike Pegasus Premium on May 10, Peg people can now choose from the Nike Pegasus, Nike Pegasus Plus, and Nike Pegasus Premium.
Norda 005 First Run Review

4 weeks ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Running shoes, like eggs, have skyrocketed in price. For $325, you can purchase about a week's worth of eggs (kidding, maybe) or the Norda 005, Norda's bid to build a highly durable trail "super shoe" without a plate.
Dan Green and Rachel Entrekin Shatter Cocodona 250 Course Records

1 month ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene |David Gleisner

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. No course record was safe at the 2025 Cocodona 250. It started on Wednesday afternoon when Dan Green broke the tape in 58 hours, 47 minutes, and 29 seconds. That's over an hour faster than the 59:50:55 mark set by Harry Subertas last year, this time on an indisputably harder 256.5-mile course.
Everything You Need to Know About the Cocodona 250

1 month ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Five years. That’s all it took for the Cocodona 250-mile trail running race to go from birth to one of the most highly-anticipated ultrarunning events of the year. That, of course, is largely thanks to Courtney Dauwalter gracing the obscenely long event with her indelibly cheerful competitive spark this time.
Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB 2025: Start Lists, Race Guide, & How to Watch

2 months ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. There’s never been a running race on the moon, yet. But Tenerife Bluetrail by UTMB is pretty darn close. On March 27-29, runners from around the world will descend upon this lunar landscape nestled in the Canary Islands to test their mettle.
After Commanding Chianti Win, Can Jim Walmsley Be Beat?

2 months ago | run.outsideonline.com | Abby Levene

New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, upcoming running events, and more near you. Your weekly Local Running Newsletter has everything you need to lace up! Subscribe today. Absolutely nothing and everything all at once—that’s what Jim Walmsley (U.S.) earned by breaking the tape at the Chianti Ultra Trail 120K on Saturday, March 22. Walmsley already had the ultimate prize waiting for him: a spot on the Western States 100 start line on June 28.