To raise money for heart disease research, Rob Gin...  ...2 hours and 18 minutes. [...] A veteran of 18 marathons on six continents, Mr Ginnivan said before taking...

Well, I couldn't, but I'm not so young anymore. Ot...  ...e, however, have run -- not just walk, but run -- marathons with little or no training specifically for that...

The marathon is brutal enough as it is normally conducted. Remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, died at the end. Now imagine completing one in sub-zero temperatures through the snow. That's what thirty-...

As if a marathon isn't brutal enough, New York Times illustrator Christoph Niemann decided to occasionally draw cartoons on the way and then tweet them. Here's one from 16.3 miles. People of all professions should tr...

I think that we've now run out of excuses to exercise. Fauja Singh, at the age of 100, became the oldest man to complete a marathon: It took Singh over eight hours to cross the finish line — more than six hours afte...

If you love zombies and running (I'm looking at you, Stacy Conradt), you'll love this: marathon through the woods while being actively chased by volunteer zombies. If that's your thing (and I think for a lot of you it mi...

Kelly Gneiting, a champion sumo wrestler from Arizona, hopes to complete an upcoming marathon in under nine hours. If successful, he'll be the heaviest marathon competitor ever according to Guinness World Records: "I...

Edison Pena, one of the Chilean miners who was trapped underground for 69 days, was known to the media as "the runner" because he ran long distances underground to keep physically fit. On Sunday, he's going to compete i...

TV Tango has a list of everything special on TV for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. You wouldn't want to miss a marathon showing of your favorite show, whether it's The Andy Griffith Show, Spongebob Squarepants, Doctor...