⬆️ How different sports players sprint. ⬆️
? Video of the Week: With Alaska’s Mount Marathon taking place today, watch Luke Bredar’s video of the hardest 5k on earth.
? Reach for the Sky: As if he didn’t have enough to worry about while running across the African continent, British runner Russell Cook was mugged at gunpoint and robbed of a “couple cameras, 2 iphones, all of our cash, and passports.”
? Carbon-Free Kicks: At last week’s Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, Allbirds officially revealed the design of the world’s first net zero carbon shoe, which they’re calling the M0.0NSHOT.
? Journalists sometimes “parachute in” to a place and a subculture that they know nothing about in an effort to explain what they find to the general public. Here, a Brooklyn-based writer tries to make sense of “the deranged scene” at a 24-hour race in Sharon Hills, Pennsylvania.
? We’ve watched Nickademus de la Rosa grow up in our sport, but few of us knew what he was going through. The long-time ultrarunner opens up to the New York Times about his diagnosis and struggle with borderline personality disorder.
?? Double Trouble: Two 90-year-old friends, Friends Myrtle Miller and Dollie Kelly, complete the Missoula Half Marathon.
➡️ Lastly, here’s what we’re reading, watching, and listening to this week.