Anne Francis

1 month ago | runningmagazine.ca | Anne Francis

After a rare DNF by Courtney Dauwalter 108 miles into this year’s Cocodona 250, and despite brutal weather over the first day and a half of the race, the eventual women’s winner finished fourth overall, decimating the course record by seven hours. Rachel Entrekin of Alabama, who also won last year’s race, ran from Black Canyon City (near Phoenix) to Flagstaff in 63 hours, 50 minutes, 55 seconds. West Virginia’s Dan Green won the men’s race, also with a new course record; his time was 58:47:18.

1 month ago | runningmagazine.ca | Anne Francis

On Saturday, New Mexico teacher and coach Megan Eckert broke the women’s world record for the 6-day event at the 2025 GOMU 6-Day World Championship in Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, France, surpassing Camille Herron’s world best of 560.33 miles (901.764 km), set at Lululemon’s Further event in 2024–and there were still nine hours left in the race. Eckert finished with a mind-boggling 603.156 miles (970.685 km); she’s the first woman in the world to surpass the 600-mile mark in a 6-day race.

1 month ago | runningmagazine.ca | Anne Francis

On Thursday, two-time 100m medallist Fred Kerley was arrested and charged with “touch or strike battery” in Miami, where he was scheduled to compete in the second Grand Slam Track event on Saturday, after an argument with an ex-girlfriend during which he allegedly struck her in the face. The sprinter will no longer be competing in the event. According to TMZ, the argument with Olympic hurdler Alaysha Johnson, 28, whom he had previously dated, took place in the meet hotel after a chance meeting.

1 month ago | runningmagazine.ca | Anne Francis

There’s nothing like the satisfaction of training for a race and having it go well. And for many runners, they want to experience that feeling as much as possible. It becomes easy for running and training to become such a big part of their lives that taking a break–from a few days to a few months of not running–becomes unthinkable. But, while there’s nothing wrong with making running a big (maybe even the biggest) part of your life, it’s important to schedule a little downtime now and then.

1 month ago | runningmagazine.ca | Anne Francis

Does it sometimes feel like everyone you know is training for a marathon? If you are, too, more power to you–many people make training for and racing marathons their main hobby. But if you’ve never run one, or you ran one and never plan to run another, or you used to run marathons but no longer do, know this: nowhere is it written that, to call yourself a runner, you have to run a marathon. Don’t all runners run marathons eventually? In a word, no.