Terry Fox was only 18 years old when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated 6 inches above the knee in 1977. While in hospital, Terry was so overcome by the suffering of other cancer patients, many of them young children, that he decided to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He would call his journey the Marathon of Hope – covering 3,339 miles before having to stop because of the cancer moving to his lungs. Runs for Terry have garnered over 400 million dollars towards cancer research worldwide to date.

An exciting and poetic short documentary exploring the four minute mile, the perfect race. Englishman Roger Bannister was the first to break it and now it is considered the standard for any competitive long distance runner to master.

“Barefoot Running” and “Forefoot Strike” seem to be the key words for runners in 2009. In the last months an increasing number of articles has appeared on newspapers, blogs, forums with a common central theme: traditional running shoes promote a non-ideal running form and running barefoot is what we were created for. At the same time we are seeing more and more Brands launching and promoting shoes that promise to improve your running style, either by creating a barefoot feeling or by promoting midfoot and forefoot strike.

When it comes to low arches, flat feet, motion control, the name everybody drops is Brooks Beast. Larger runners (above 200 lbs) with flat feet seem to be the people who get the better benefits from this shoes, and that replace them regularly every year with the new model. But what is it that makes the Beast the long-selling franchise it is? Let’s see how the shoe is built.

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from Massachusetts who together compete in marathon races (with a 2:40 personal best). And if they’re not in a marathon they are in a Ironman. It’s a remarkable record of exertion — all the more so when you consider that Rick can’t walk or talk.