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🗼 More than 166,000 runners entered the Paris Marathon's first-ever lottery for at least 35,000 spots in the 2027 race.

📉 Nike's first-quarter sales slipped 4% to $11.2 billion, and its new restructuring plan comes with another round of layoffs.

🏋️ Hyrox is bringing official workouts into the gym apps members already use, with ABC Fitness and EGYM among its first tech partners.

🎬 A new documentary following Jim Walmsley and Vincent Bouillard looks past the race results to explore the human side of ultra running.

Esmée Gummer has completed The Nation's 5k, running 5,000km across the UK and Ireland over 99 consecutive days. Along the way she hosted free 5k run clubs in 77 cities plus Dublin, earning a Guinness World Records title for the most run clubs hosted in different cities by an individual. realbuzz

The 54th Portland Marathon presented by Nike Running drew a record of nearly 15,000 registrants on October 4. Connor Ford won the men's marathon in 2:27:17, and Margaret Glad topped the women's field in 2:52:42. Portland Marathon

Diplo's Run Club made its Chicago debut at Humboldt Park, drawing more than 9,000 participants for a timed 5K. Brady Snelson (16:25) and Kate Shikani (19:14) took the wins before Diplo headlined a finish-line concert. Diplo's Run Club

Garmin has launched the Enduro 4, a solar-charging GPS smartwatch with up to 320 hours of battery life in activity mode or 90 days in smartwatch mode. It adds grade-adjusted pace targets, stamina metrics, built-in routable maps and 64 GB of onboard storage. Garmin

Garmin has launched the Approach S72 golf smartwatch in 43mm and 47mm sizes, with AMOLED displays, on-wrist swing metrics, green reading and putting analytics. Other features include a titanium bezel, sapphire lens, built-in flashlight and up to 20 hours of on-course battery life. Garmin

Sportograf returns as Official Photography Partner and Global Partner for The Running Conference presented by haku 2026, its second straight year with the event. The conference runs December 6-8 at Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, UK. Running Industry Alliance

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