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"Heartache Tonight" by the Eagles was the No.1 song in the U.S. on this day in 1979.

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November 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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Gabriela Andersen-Schiess didn't win the first Olympic women's marathon — she staggered across the line in 37th, stopping officials from pulling her. And that collapse became the argument's turning point, not its setback. The footage meant to prove women couldn't run 26.2 #Running #TheLongRun
The First Olympic Women's Marathon (1984) — Gabriela Andersen-Schiess and the Collapse That Nearly Undid the Case
A 1984 Olympic marathon contender's record-breaking fall serves as the turning point in the fight for women's participation, forcing a reevaluation of physiological limitations and paving the way for future generations of female runners.
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November 11, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Joan Benoit won the first Olympic women's marathon in 1984 — but the road to that start line was the real fight. Women were barred from the Olympic distance for decades on the theory it would harm them. The race was won before anyone ran a step.

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The First Olympic Women's Marathon (1984) — An Introduction
Joan Benoit dominates the first Olympic women's marathon, but her victory was preceded by a long and uncertain road. The race that changed the course of history was as much about the journey as the destination.
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November 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Before women could run the Olympic marathon in 1984, officials pointed back to 1928 — when exhausted finishers in the 800m were used as proof women couldn't handle distance. One race, misread, kept them off the road for over 50 years. #RunningHistory #Marathon #WomensRunning #Running #TheLongRun
The First Olympic Women's Marathon (1984) — The 90-Second Delay and the Rule That Kept Women Off the Road
The 1928 Olympic 800m race was meant to prove women's endurance capabilities but was instead used to justify their exclusion from the sport.
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November 9, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Seventeen days after knee surgery, Joan Benoit won the 1984 US Olympic Trials marathon — then won the Olympic gold on a breakaway nobody expected to hold. The surgery three weeks out is the part that gets dropped from the clean version.

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The First Olympic Women's Marathon (1984) — Joan Benoit's Knee and the Trials Three Weeks Before
Seventeen days after surgery, Joan Benoit wins the first U.S. Olympic Women's Marathon Trials and later the Olympic marathon. Her victory was a gamble on a breakaway strategy.
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November 10, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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November 3, 1979

The Eagles' Sixth Album,

"The Long Run",

Hits #1 in America, where it stayed for the rest of 1979...

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Eagles - The Long Run (Official Audio)
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November 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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New episode: before the five-borough spectacle, the NYC Marathon was 127 runners paying $1 to loop Central Park four times. The 1970 winner worked a firefighter's shift the night before — and took home recycled bowling trophies. The real race didn't begin until #Running #RunningHistory #TheLongRun
The New York City Marathon — The Long Run
Before it was a five-borough spectacle, the New York City Marathon was 127 runners, a dollar each, and four loops of Central Park. In this episode we go back to September 13, 1970 — the firefighter who won on no sleep, the bowling trophies handed out at the finish, and the single woman who toed the
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November 8, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Before Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984, the IOC had spent decades insisting women couldn't handle the distance. She didn't open that door alone — she walked through one others had been forcing for years.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson — The Finish Line
Joan Benoit Samuelson's remarkable journey is more than just a story about one athlete - it's a testament to the women who paved the way for her.
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November 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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The 1976 five-borough course everyone thinks of as the start? It was stitched together from races that already existed — including an inaugural Bronx marathon and threads running back to the 1897 Boston. Ted Corbitt did the unglamorous work of defining what the distance even #TheLongRun
The New York City Marathon — The Finish Line
The New York City Marathon's 1976 course was built from the ashes of smaller races, including the inaugural Bronx marathon and the 1897 Boston Marathon, with key figures like Ted Corbitt and Kathrine Switzer playing crucial roles in defining the distance and pushing boundaries.
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November 7, 2026 at 10:19 AM
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In 1972, six women sat down on the NYC Marathon start line to protest an AAU rule forcing them to start separately from the men. They weren't boycotting the race — they ran it. They just added their protest minutes to their official times and won anyway. #Running #Marathon #TheLongRun
The New York City Marathon — The Women's Race and the Challenge to the AAU
Six women, including Nina Kuscsik, sit down on the starting line of the 1972 New York City Marathon, challenging the Amateur Athletic Union's rule requiring women to start separately from men.
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November 6, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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The double-decked Verrazzano start wasn't a grand gesture — it was a logistics fix. Running 50,000 people across one bridge meant building a race on two levels and splitting the field into timed waves just to keep the roadway from buckling under the crowd.

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The New York City Marathon — The Verrazzano Start and the Problem of Moving 50,000 People
The New York City Marathon's wave start system, designed to safely manage the flood of 50,000 runners, has been a crucial element of the race's success, with the double-decked start architecture and timed waves helping to keep pace with demand.
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November 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Before 1976, the New York City Marathon ran loops inside Central Park. Moving it onto the streets of all five boroughs was a contested gamble, not an obvious upgrade — and Bill Rodgers won that first citywide edition in 2:10:09.

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The New York City Marathon — The Five Boroughs and the Argument Over Leaving Central Park
Bill Rodgers won the first five-borough New York City Marathon in 2:10:09, marking a turning point for the race that would go on to become a spectacle of crowds and course.
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November 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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At 62, Joan Benoit Samuelson wasn't chasing a win at the 2019 Boston Marathon. Her target was stranger: finish within 40 minutes of the American record she set in 1985, 40 years after her first Boston victory. Aging as a measured arithmetic problem.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson — The Masters Clock and the Pursuit of Age-Graded Times
Joan Benoit Samuelson sets out to beat her own mark at the 2019 Boston Marathon, 40 years after her first win, with a target of finishing within 40 minutes of her 1985 American record. She chases a new standard, refining her technique as her body's losses become more pronounced with each decade.
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November 4, 2026 at 3:21 AM
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The first New York City Marathon in 1970 was four laps around Central Park's loop. 127 runners entered. The race that now shuts down five boroughs started as a lap race in a single park.

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The New York City Marathon — An Introduction
In 1970, 127 runners gathered in Central Park to run four laps around the park's loop, a far cry from the massive event we know today. The first New York City Marathon paved the way for the 26.2-mile course that has become a model for cities around the world.
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November 5, 2026 at 3:13 AM
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Three miles into the first-ever women's Olympic marathon in 1984, Joan Benoit surged away from the three best runners alive. Everyone said she'd gone too early. She ran 23 miles alone and won gold by over a minute. New episode on the boldest front-run in #Running #RunningHistory #TheLongRun
Joan Benoit Samuelson — The Long Run
On August 5, 1984, Joan Benoit Samuelson surged away from the greatest field in women's marathoning three miles in — and never let them back. This episode traces the race that made her an Olympic champion: the bold early move, the 23 lonely miles through Los Angeles, and the solo entrance into the C
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November 5, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Everyone remembers Joan Benoit's 2:24:52 in LA. Fewer remember that the women's Olympic marathon didn't exist until 1984 — officials spent decades insisting women couldn't survive the distance. She didn't just win the first one. There almost wasn't one to win.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson — The 1984 Olympic Marathon and the Fight to Put Women on the Start Line
Joan Benoit wins the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984, defying conventional wisdom and blazing her own trail. Her 2:24:52 finish marks a turning point for women's distance running.
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November 3, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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Benoit had knee surgery just 17 days before the 1984 Olympic Trials — then won it. In the final, she broke away barely three miles in while everyone waited for Grete Waitz to reel her in. Waitz never did.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson — An Introduction
Joan Benoit made a bold front-running decision in the 1984 Olympic marathon, pulling away from Grete Waitz and others to win the first-ever women's gold medal.
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November 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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Seventeen days after arthroscopic knee surgery, Joan Benoit won the first U.S. women's Olympic marathon trials. Then in LA she broke away in the third mile — and nobody chased, assuming she'd fade. She didn't. Gold, 2:24:52.

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Joan Benoit Samuelson — The Knee Surgery Seventeen Days Out
Seventeen days after an arthroscopic surgery to repair a knee injury, Joan Benoit won the first U.S. women's Olympic marathon trials in 2:31:04, and then broke away early in Los Angeles to win the gold in 2:24:52.
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November 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Most coaches build backward from fitness or volume. Canova flips it: race-day goal pace is the fixed point, and every workout is defined by its percentage of that pace. The target isn't the finish line — it's the ruler.

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The Canova Method — Specific Pace as the Organizing Principle
Renato Canova's training system is centered on a single fixed point: the athlete's intended pace on race day.
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November 1, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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Everybody credits Renato Canova for the method that bears his name. But the ideas he's famous for were being worked out by coaches and physiologists decades before he started — some as far back as the 1930s. He systematized what others had already half-built.

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The Canova Method — The Finish Line
The series digs into the roots of the Canova Method, tracing its evolution from the 1930s to the 1970s through the work of coaches and physiologists who laid the groundwork for this innovative approach to training.
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November 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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New episode: how Renato Canova rebuilt East African distance training around a radical idea—train at race pace, not beneath it. Inside: Moses Mosop's 2:03:06 marathon debut (the fastest ever) and why "specific" work became the whole method. Listen now. #running #marathon #RunningHistory #TheLongRun
The Canova Method — The Long Run
When Moses Mosop ran 2:03:06 in his debut marathon at Boston in 2011, the world saw a stunning time. The more interesting story stood in the follow vehicle: Renato Canova, the Italian coach who spent a decade rebuilding how East African runners train for the distance. This episode unpacks the Canov
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November 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Everyone treats aerobic base as gospel, courtesy of Lydiard. Canova broke with it: train at goal race pace, not slow volume. Kirui and Kiplagat built marathon endurance on high-intensity specific work — the opposite of base-first orthodoxy.

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The Canova Method — The Rift with Lydiard's Base-First Orthodoxy
Canova's break with Lydiard's system led to a training model that prioritizes specificity of pace over general aerobic base. This approach was successful for athletes like Abel Kirui and Florence Kiplagat, who built their marathon endurance on high-intensity, goal-paced training.
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November 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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Mosop ran 2:03:06 in his marathon debut — second-fastest in history at the time, in his first attempt at the distance. The secret wasn't talent alone but Renato Canova's method, which throws out the slow-base orthodoxy most coaches still swear by.

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The Canova Method — An Introduction
Moses Mosop's 2:03:06 marathon debut shattered the record, but what made his success possible was the unorthodox training method of his coach, Renato Canova.
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October 29, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Salazar's ban came from USADA, a US agency with no formal authority over athletes in other countries — yet its rulings ripple across a sport with no single global enforcer. The reach is messier than the headlines suggest.

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The Doping Ban of Alberto Salazar — The Finish Line
The US anti-doping agency sanctions athletes for cheating, but how far does that reach?
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October 29, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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New episode: Salazar wasn't banned for a single failed test. The panels found testosterone trafficking, a rigged L-carnitine infusion method, and tampering with doping control—all while he coached Mo Farah and Galen Rupp to Olympic gold. The full story of the #Running #RunningHistory #TheLongRun
The Doping Ban of Alberto Salazar — The Long Run
On September 30, 2019, in Doha, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency banned Alberto Salazar for four years—not for a single positive test from any of his runners, but for possessing and trafficking testosterone and tampering with the doping-control process. This episode traces the fall of the Nike Oregon Pro
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October 29, 2026 at 7:57 AM