That includes a group of five runners from the North Country who are all taking part as a relay team in this year’s race. Olivia Dwyer from Upper Jay, New York, organized that relay with some of her ...

Along with a slew of other physical impacts that running a marathon can have on the human body, a new study reveals that your body may also start eating your brain while running the 26.2-mile race.

This is incredibly important, considering the brain needs very high energy for all those nerve signals—especially when running a marathon. The reason the brain turns to myelin during extreme ...