A backcountry ski journey through the minus 30 degree chill of the Arctic, in the company of nine U.S. military men training to face down Vladimir Putin’s Russian warriors.
Ski
Edited by Sam Berman. Photo by Heath Sandall.
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Candidate Kipsang
Kenyan marathon ace Wilson Kipsang runs for public office, amid accusations that he’s stealing votes.
ESPN
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.
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Don’t Stop Now
At age 77, long distance hiker George “Billy Goat” Woodard has no fixed address and is forever walking in the wilderness or making his way to the wilderness—on trains, in friends’ cars, and sometimes by hitchhiking.
Backpacker
Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Bob Stefko.
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The Million Mile Man
When cyclist Danny Chew was 21, he resolved to ride his bike a million lifetime miles. Then, at age 54 and 783,000 miles into his quest, he crashed and became paralyzed.
Outside
Edited by Elizabeth Hightower. Photograph by Michael Swensen.
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Refugee Runner
Yiech Pur Biel was born amid a civil war in South Sudan. Soldiers burned down his village, his parents left him, he grew up in a refugee camp. Now he’s readying to compete in the Olympics.
ESPN
Edited by Vic Seper. Photographs by Georgina Goodwin.
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Rise of a Running Nation
Lon Myers was the greatest American runner of the nineteenth century and also a Sephardic Jew. In 1882, he ran a series of three one-on-one footraces against England’s best runner, Walter George, at the Polo Grounds, in New York City.
Runner’s World
Edited by Christine Fennessy. Illustrations by Bruce Emmet.
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No One Can Save Us Now But The Saints
On the cusp of the 2014 World Cup, a look the Mexican national soccer team, in all its sorrow and anguish.
2014 ESPN FC World Cup Guide
Edited by Rebecca Nordquist.
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Coach, Remembered
Until he died at age 71, while rowing on a lake in Maine, my college cross country and track coach, Jim Wescott was a mentor and sensei to hundreds of athletes. Here’s an account of what it was like to run for him.
Colby Magazine
Edited by Gerry Boyle.
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Stairway to Hell
Inside the arcane world of competitive stair racing.
The New York Times Magazine
Edited by Dean Robinson. Photograph by Stephen Ferry.
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