There’s being an athlete, and there’s being an ironman

Will Goodge’s Australian Ultra: Record, resilience, and responding to the ‘cheat’ accusations

FIVE RUNNERS WHO’VE BEEN GIVEN DEVASTATING HEALTH PROGNOSES SHARE INSPIRING STORIES OF THE MILES THEY’VE RUN IN THE TIME THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD

Challenge Gdansk, Poland, gets underway on 22 June. Marcel Bolbat (GER) would set a new race record to win in 3:44:03, after closing a 2:30min gap on the run to second-place Louis Woodgate (GRE). Swis

I remember doing Ironman Lanzarote a few years ago and seeing a placard on the side of the run which said: “We don’t do this because it’s easy – we do it because we thought it would be easy.” More tha

Mention the Ironman bike leg to any triathlon novice and watch as their jaw drops and their mind is blown. Some 180km (112-miles) after a 3.8km swim and before a marathon run? It’s the stuff of endura

“The big problem I had was doldrums. I ...