We spoke with Danny Orr, senior director of product development at Brooks, to find out what it takes to build a track spike that can handle running a mile at more than 16 mph.

British runners in particular have long tried to cross the finish line in less than 4 minutes, records show, sometimes running in the nude or trying to win a bet ...

Harley isn't known for speed, but one rare factory-built drag bike defies expectations, running a 9-second quarter-mile.

Whenever I come back from a long break in running, I have a special trick that gets me on track with ease: running a mile a day. One mile takes somewhere between ten and fifteen minutes depending on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seasoned marathon runners Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes stay fit by sweating every day. (Photo illustration: Nathalie Cruz/Yahoo News ...

Powered by nothing more than an internal combustion engine, these critically-endangered rides are insanely quick in standard factory-spec form, blitzing past the quarter-mile marker from a standstill ...

The first time I ever ran for the sake of running—not between bases during a softball game or to avoid being tagged “it” at recess—was for the Presidential Fitness Test, a set of fitness assessments ...

It’s all fun and games until you have to run 10 miles. Alone. In 9,000 percent humidity. And the life lessons you were so ...

These cars make quarter-mile testing almost pointless, putting a massive gap between their acceleration times and how fast ...