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A judge has thrown out a claim for negligence from a race competitor as organisers were able to use a trail of moronic posts on a Facebook group as evidence that the claimant was ill-prepared.
While negotiating the 268-kilometre BackBone Race, runner Karl Allwood found himself on the wrong path and accidentally descended the wrong side of the infamous Boffers Pass. He was left facing a snowstorm in -10 degrees C. He was found six hours later...

A runner is suing the race organisers of the Stewington Trail 10K for making him run through a wheat field, which triggered an apparent allergy.
Oliver Scowcroft of East Riding was on target, 6K into the race, when the left turn that should have been a field of dreams became a field of screams. “Immediately I saw the wheat I suffered a slight discomfort in my stomach,” Scowcroft told The Runion...

Fans of Arthur C Clarke were stunned today when his spirit revealed “extreme disappointment” that the technology he proposed for geostationary communications satellites would, some 70 years later, boil down to arguments between whether ‘Suunto or Garmin...

Ever thought that the guy sailing past you in your parkrun pushing their kids in a buggy is just doing it to annoy you? Well, more than likely you’d be right.
Toddlejoggle, a manufacturer of high-end running pushchairs, asked 700 people what motivated them to take their kids out running. The answers were surprising....