Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…
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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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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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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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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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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Why Portland is number one.
Bicycling
Edited by Dave Howard.
Photograph by Charles Gullung.
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Diane Van Deren overcame epilepsy and then became a top ultramarathoner. Did her brain surgery help improve her pain tolerance, or is she just tough?
Runner’s World
Republished in Best American Sports Writing 2012.
Edited by Charlie Butler. Photograph by Evan Hurd.
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The author launches a career as a nordic ski racer.
The Washington Post Magazine
Edited by David Rowell. Photos by Layne Kennedy.
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Bicycling to the world’s largest statue of Genghis Khan, in Mongolia. Edited by Tim Lavin.
The Atlantic
Edited by Tim Lavin. Photo by Jeffrey Kerby.
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