A British startup plans to create a new wave of athletics records by reinventing the running track. London-based Feldspar is engineering the surface to maximise speed. It all starts with the flooring ...

The 400-meter running track at South River High School in Anne Arundle County, Maryland, was in bad shape. The rubberized surface was cracking, the asphalt had worn through the rubber in some places, ...

It was a Tuesday and I was on my way to a running track. It was ‘Track Tuesday’, if you like – a well-known convention among several runners. But I wasn’t going to run around a regular, oval track on ...

In the 1960s, when traditional cinder athletics tracks were replaced by spongy, synthetic surfaces, endurance running experienced a revolution. Long distance runners began clocking far faster times on ...