First Lady Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007) and President Lyndon Johnson (1908 - 1973) in the audience at a Music for Young America concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., May ...

I want to highlight particularly women's experiences of endurance running to find out if running long distances is all about enduring pain and if it is, why do women voluntary engage in a painful and ...

Myths about women in sport date back at least to the dawn of the Olympics 2,800 years ago, when women weren’t allowed to compete. These myths “remain hard to shake,” according to sports journalist ...

For years, Cindy Quiroz struggled to maintain a consistent running routine. Though the bilingual school teacher played soccer in high school, running long distances wasn’t much fun compared to ...

Despite decades of progress in sports science, women runners still wear scaled-down men’s shoes. A new study exposes how this one-size-fits-all approach affects comfort, performance, and injury risk, ...

The six testers for this story, all women, ranged in ages from early 20s to late 30s, and have a wide range of running goals. Some were training for specific races or future ultras (one reported that ...

For many women, running at night can feel more like an act of courage than a simple workout. The fear of harassment or being attacked often confines runners to daylight workouts and crowded paths, but ...