Running into Celebrities »

Our culture today is fascinated with celebrities. It is evidenced in the success of magazines like People and Us, in the growing popularity of celebrity gossip websites, and even in the reading habits of visitors to CRN.

25 Celebrities Who’ve Run a Marathon »

Article Summary: A fun list and photos of actors, musicians, politicians, models and TV personalities who have run a marathon.

Ever wonder who among the rich and famous have run a marathon and how you stack up against them? So did I so I set out to compile a list. An hour of googling later I [...]

Blogs by Elite/Famous Runners Courtesy of Runner’s World »

Runner’s World recently got into the blogosphere with some fine blogs written by elite athletes and people close to the elites. Check out blogs by:

Meb Keflezighi
Deena Kastor
Dean Karnazes (this one’s an old blog that chronicles Dean’s 50 in 50 milestone)
Kirstin Armstrong’s Mile Markers (Lance Armstrong’s ex-wife). Edit: Thomas correctly pointed out Kirstin is not an [...]

MySpace Can Be OurSpace »

I bet you wish you had running friends like I do. I mean, who wouldn’t? When it comes to famous runners, I can name drop with the best of ‘em.
Wanna see who, among the world’s elite runners, call me their friend? How about Josh Cox? Not impressed? (what’s wrong with you?). Ok, how about Sebastian [...]

Elite/Famous Ultra/Trail Runner Web Sites »

In a follow-up to Mark’s list of Elite or Famous Distance Runner Web Sites, I decided to add a list of famous/elite ultra/trail runner websites. Again, these are all either run by the athlete or sanctioned by them as an official site.

Extreme Ultrarunning is David’s Horton’s site. He is legendary in the world of [...]

Elite/Famous Runner Web Sites »

I set out to collect a list of famous or elite distance runner websites – personal sites maintained or at least sanctioned by elite runners. I was dissappointed to find a very limited number of such sites.

Winner of the 2004 Olympic Marathon: Stefano Baldini. Stefano needs to get the English translation part of his site [...]