Over the years, there have been some entertaining stories that have been used to get people off (or at least try) from positive doping tests - from a gay man making out with a female craigslist encounter to five bottles of beer and sex at least four times with the wife. We've got a new doozy for you.

The current records are 2:37.25 for men and 2:54.85 for women.

Palmer went to college at Manmouth University with New England Patriots wide receiver Chris Hogan who he thinks could break 5-minutes in the mile off football training.

Owen Delaney says the positive feedback from the Strava community has motivated him to do a design everyday up until Christmas, but his kids think he's just crazy.

New Zealand Olympian Carson started the marathon just to get in his 35K long run, but motivated by the "finisher t-shirt," he decided mid-race that he "might as well finish" and turned it into his marathon debut. *MB: Olympic miler Hamish Carson runs marathon on a lark, instead of doing a long run - guess his time

By now, you've likely seen the video of the college cross country runner being run over by a deer mid-race. Here what he has to say about it.

If you think a cramp is the worse thing to fear in a race, you've never had anyone yell, "Watch out for the deer!"

Halloween races have grown more than 60% since 2011 and are second behind Thanksgiving Turkey Trots.

The web vigilantes have won again and exposed yet another race cheat. Inspired in part by the fastest growing thread in LetsRun.com history started by Asher Delmott, a 101-page report shows conclusively that Robert Young wasn't running for much of his attempted record run across America. *MB: Robert Young fakes run across America

When a solar powered car with a top speed of 68 mph races a Kenyan 800 stud, who had the edge? We'll find out on Friday.

After running the BAA 10K, Baysa changed swapped her running clothes for a gown and serenaded the crowd to honor the people of Boston and women's running pioneer Robert "Bobbi" Gibb.

Mike Rossi, the North Korean version, x 2?

Learn how (and why) Fairfax (Va.) HS won a 4 x 100 using a high jump bar for a baton. *MB: HS Team Runs and Wins 4 x 100 Using a High Jump Bar For A Baton (amazing video)

It's official. Twitter is not the place to try to carry on a constructive dialogue.

The release says it is a "new twist" on the original indoor marathon from 1906 in Madison Square Garden. Looks like it will be all relay races, so no one will run a full marathon. *MB Archives: Has a lapped runner ever come back to win a race?

Yesterday was the last day to qualify.