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Healthy habits when young will set them up for a lifetime of happy running.

With records seeming to fall every week, Olympian Molly Huddle provides perspective.

More top athletes are no longer willing to “take one for the team”—and that’s a good thing.

I love watching an athlete break through to a new level. Whenever I watch an athlete have a big jump in performance, I think back to my most transformative years in the sport. It’s amazing how that new level of performance can look shocking, almost magical to the outside. Even more interestingly, if you observe the athlete in the year or two leading to that moment, you sometimes see what looks like no steps at all, or even steps backward. No matter what you need to improve in your running life, My Early Pro Struggles In 2009, my second year out of college, I was injured much of the year. ...

Andy LyonsGetty Images While we aren’t yet sure if we can classify 2021 as an Olympic year, we still see the quadrennial pattern playing out of professional runners switching, losing, or picking up new sponsors during this uncertain time. Related Story Seeing these shakeups calls to mind the question of what makes an athlete “valuable.” As an athlete paid to compete, what, if anything, is expected of me beyond wins, records, and finishing on podiums? If someone is good enough and “just wants to run,” is that okay? Apart from fulfilling sponsors’ direct requests, what else are ...