Michal Kapral

Canadian 1500m star Nate Brannen will extend his favoured race distance by half a kilometre Tuesday night to take a shot at Taylor Milne’s national record of 5:01 for the 2000m at a meet in Toronto.

Police in London, Ont. are looking for a woman with a grey and white Shih Tzu after the dog bit a runner’s leg as she was passing by, causing a two-inch wound to the woman’s calf. Here’s how to avoid getting nipped by Fido.

In an age-defying spectacle at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium on Saturday, a quartet of Canadian runners in their 80s sprinted to a new age-group world record in the men’s 4x800m relay at the Ontario Masters Championships. Their time of 14:24 eclipsed the previous record of 16:01.

The Berlin Marathon field is heating up, with world-record holder Patrick Makau of Kenya announcing that he’ll run the Sept. 29 race. Makau set the current official marathon world record of 2:03:38 on this same course in 2011.

Artifacts from Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope will go on display in April 2015 at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. near Ottawa, the Fox family and Canada’s Heritage Minister James Moore announced.

In one of the world’s only mass-participation 1500m events, the London Runner Distance Club is hosting its Runners’ Choice 1500m Night tonight, where 333 athletes will compete for prizes over 24 sections of the 3.75-lap distance.

The Victoria International Track Classic gets underway at the University of Victoria’s Centennial Stadium with the first event on the track at 6 p.m. PT. Catch all the action as it unfolds through FloTrack’s live streaming coverage.

Aylmer, Que.’s Jennifer Jeaurond, 37, shares her story in a Q&A on how a program called Run to Quit – a partnership between the Canadian Cancer Society and the Running Room – helped her deal with a two-decade-long smoking addiction.

I think we can all agree that high heels are impractical for running and will increase muscular fatigue, but Chinese researchers tried to determine just how much by asking female subjects to run on a treadmill, wearing high-heeled shoes with a variety of heights.

Regular running reorganizes the brain in a way that makes it more adept at dealing with stressful situations, a new study by Princeton University researchers published in the Journal of Neuroscience has found.

The Dark Side was way on the hot side for Jon Rice, a Colorado-based runner who sprinted a mile across Death Valley, California, dressed in a Darth Vader costume.

The One Run for Boston relay finished at the Boston Marathon finish line area on Monday morning after a coast-to-coast American journey that involved 2,000 runners who helped raise more than $80,000 for those affected by the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings.