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THE INSIDE TRACK

🏎️ A Formula One-inspired running race inside a Brooklyn warehouse, complete with a starting grid and a finish line that turned into a midnight dance floor, just took unsanctioned racing to another level.

🏅 A high school sprinter's celebratory gesture at the finish line got him disqualified and cost his team a state title, until an appeals board stepped in.

PRESS RELEASES

EVENTS

The Fenway Park Marathon returned May 30, with approximately 65 runners completing marathon, half marathon, and relay distances on the ballpark's warning track to benefit the Red Sox Foundation and the Dave McGillivray Finish Strong Foundation. Dan Koh (3:30:27) and Pauline Santry (3:44:45) won the marathon titles. Dave McGillivray Finish Strong Foundation, Inc. 

The PRRO Circuit's 2025-26 season continues June 6 at the 52nd Steamboat Classic 4 Mile Presented by PNC in Peoria, Illinois, the fifth of six stops and the USATF Open and Masters 4 Mile Championship. The race offers $42,000 in guaranteed, ten-deep U.S. prize money with $6,000 to each open champion, plus a path to the $10,000 Super Bonus at the season-ending Quad-City Times Bix 7. PRRO

The inaugural Bay Area 100, a point-to-point 100-mile ultramarathon, is set to crown its first champions on June 13. The East Bay Regional Parks course climbs more than 18,000 feet through redwood forests, lakeshores, and exposed coastal ridges. Scena Performance

The Santa Monica Pier 360 Beach Festival returns June 27-28 for two free, all-ages days of ocean sports, skateboarding, roller skating, live music, and food along the shoreline, produced by the Santa Monica Pier Corporation. Santa Monica Pier Corporation


SPONSORSHIPS

Spartan has renewed and expanded its partnership with the United States Navy for the 2026-2027 season, keeping the Navy as Official Federal Government Services Partner of Spartan Race U.S. across the full U.S. event calendar. The Navy will activate at multiple races with dedicated festival space, interactive experiences, and recruitment, plus integrations across Spartan's digital and content platforms. Spartan

STUDIES

Garmin marked Global Running Day and Global Cycling Day by releasing global running and cycling data reports drawn from its Garmin Connect community, with the average logged run measuring 4.82 miles and runners in Ireland posting the fastest average mile at 9:09. On the bike, riders averaged 28.59 miles per outing, with Italian cyclists logging the longest average rides at 34.73 miles. Garmin

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