Tag: Marathon

  • Nation & World

    How fast can we run?

    Harvard Professor Daniel Lieberman offers evolutionary perspective on Roger Bannister’s four-minute mile, today’s marathoners.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Rising to the challenge

    Four Harvard students were among the finishers of the famed Leadville Trail 100 Run, a 100-mile race through the mountains of Colorado.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Then, I wanted to run’

    Navy SEAL veteran Dan Cnossen, severely wounded in Afghanistan, rebounded to graduate from the Kennedy School, and is bound for the Divinity School.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Miles to go

    Harvard physicist Jenny Hoffman has a passion for distance. Last month in Cleveland she brought home the 2014 national championship in USA Track and Field’s 24-Hour Run, posting a final distance of more than 127 miles.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Good news for marathoners

    Harvard researchers have found that those participating in marathons and half-marathons are not at an increased risk of cardiac arrest.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Warrior spirit

    Five years ago, Andrew Kinard lost his legs in Iraq. After 75 surgeries, he’s tackling other big goals, from a Harvard education to the Boston Marathon.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fuel efficiency for marathoners

    Inspired by his experience in the 2005 New York Marathon, an M.D./Ph.D. student has taken a rigorous approach to calculating just how much carbohydrate a runner needs to fuel himself or herself through 26.2 miles, and what pace that runner can reasonably expect to sustain.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seeing Harvard from all sides

    Bill Lee, who is the newest member of the Harvard Corporation, has seen Harvard from many vantage points: He attended the College, has taught at the Law School, served as an Overseer and has been a proud Harvard parent – twice. As he prepared to join the Corporation, Lee sat down with the Gazette to…

    11 minutes