Jungfrau Marathon

Interlaken, Switzerland | Saturday, September 6, 2025

Billed by its race organizers as “the most beautiful marathon in the world,” this race takes runners on a jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring tour of the mountains that lead up to one of the most stunning peaks in the Swiss Alps. From the starting line in Interlaken — a resort town in the Bernese Oberland region of central Switzerland, which lies on a stretch of land between a pair of lakes — the route climbs nearly 5,000 feet by the time you reach the finish line, at the Kleine Scheidegg railway station, where you’ll catch the train back down to Interaken. And before Saturday’s 26.2 miles, you can participate in shorter runs on Friday, including kids’ races between 200 and 1,600 meters, and a “minimarathon” fun run in the early evening.

₣ 209 (about $249 in U.S. dollars)

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Your favorite running book?

Something that caught my eye in the responses Debby Jones shared in our Wednesday interview was how she “always [has] a running book going. I literally have a shelf dedicated to books on running.”

That got me wondering — and I don’t know if I’ve ever asked this question before, which I can’t believe I haven’t if that’s the case — what is your favorite book on running?

For me, it’s a tie between ’s Running Home and Christopher McDougall’s Running With Sherman, a beautiful story about the year he spent rescuing a long-neglected donkey on a rural Pennsylvania farm, helping him rehab and train for the burro racing world championship in Colorado. (We even read it together in our book club a few years ago.)

So, what’s your favorite running-related book?

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To watch/listen

Because it’s Friday — or, as I like to call it, “Friday fun day” — I thought I’d share with you a quirky (interesting? odd?) rabbit hole I ventured down the other day on YouTube, when I discovered just how many covers there are of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” out there. Bluegrass bands, symphonies, bagpipers, guzheng players — even a guy with a washing machine — they’ve all covered the song, and they have to be seen to be believed.

Here’s one of my favorites I hope you enjoy too — and in the meantime, have a fantastic weekend and get in a great run out there ☀️ — Terrell

Edge to Edge Half Marathon

Vancouver Island, British Columbia | Sunday, October 19, 2025

Run entirely on the Ucluelet Peninsula of Vancouver Island in the Canadian province of British Columbia, this race unfolds along the Wild Pacific Trail, a 9-kilometer trail network described as a place that “weaves itself into your soul” thanks to stunning views of rainforest on the trail as well as reefs, shipwrecks and whales out in the Pacific Ocean. You’ll need to be on the lookout for land-based wildlife, too; one travel agency notes that “deer, bears, cougars and wolves may use the trail or the areas around the trail — [so] please leash your pets and keep your children close to you.”

CA $80 and up

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A great running read

A Guide to New York’s Running Clubs. This is actually a fascinating phenomenon to see take shape, especially as running has undergone a boom since the pandemic: running groups that aren’t just about running, but rather clubs for all sorts of things — from pitching your startup to finding a date to bonding with others who are building businesses and careers too. (And, while this is NYC-focused, I’d be interested to hear if groups like these are sprouting up in other cities/places too.)

George Levin, a founder himself, helped start the New York chapter less than a year ago. “I am a runner myself and I hate networking. I know it’s important, but I really hate it,” he told me.

He was interested in this club to start to solve that problem, he told me, “and then it grew into something bigger in my life — not just meeting founders but cool friends.” On his birthday recently, two of the group’s runners celebrated with him. He met them only five months ago.

Words to run by

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes… The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

— Oscar Wilde

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Blueberry Cove Half Marathon

Tenants Harbor, Maine | Sunday, August 24, 2025

Enjoy the tranquil, peaceful beauty of Midcoast Maine and raise money for the locally based 4-H camp and learning center at this late-summer race, set here along the gorgeous rocky St. George peninsula that looks out into the harbor from which the town gets its name. Known perhaps best for the lighthouse that sits out on Southern Island just offshore, Tenants Harbor is a place where boats outnumber cars — and where you’ll run along winding roads with views of the ocean crashing against the beaches and rocky shorelines, with “quiet coves, gentle hills, and few houses.”

$100 and up

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A great running read

This Runner Suddenly Shares His Name With the New Pope. He’s Having the Weirdest Week Ever. You’re not gonna believe this: 48-year-old Robert Prevost not only shares the same name as the new 69-year-old pontiff, but he and his wife also have a dog named Leo! (Not to be confused with the new Pope Leo XIV, of course):

What have the last 24 hours been like?

It’s been pretty hilarious. I’m actually hanging out in Las Vegas with my younger brother right now for our birthdays. We’re just getting in a couple rounds of golf to get away. So, we were sitting having lunch at the golf course yesterday, and the news pops up on our phones, and he just blurts out and starts laughing, saying, “My brother is the pope!”

All of a sudden, my phone just started buzzing, buzzing, buzzing, and there have probably been a couple hundred messages that have come through. It’s been kind of fun, honestly.

Words to run by

“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun… As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.”

— Katharine Hepburn, born on this day in 1907

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Fabulous Fahnestock Trail Races

Cold Spring, N.Y. | Saturday, August 16, 2025

A gorgeously scenic run through Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park, whose 14,000-plus acres in New York’s Hudson Valley feature trails where you’ll “climb up long hills, run past lakes and ponds, and along old dirt roads and abandoned rail beds, with an optimal amount of single track,” organizers say, adding that its “varied landscape includes hemlock gorges, bald ridge hilltops, second-growth hardwood forest, mountain laurel thickets, and numerous lakes, ponds and streams.” You can go as hard or as easy as you like, with distance options from 5 1/2 miles to 25 or even 50 kilometers.

$50 and up

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A great running read

What It’s Like to Run the Speed Project, a 340-Mile Unsanctioned Road Race. Each spring, a group of some of the hardest hardcore runners you’ll ever meet — including THM friend and reader — set out on a journey by foot along the sand and highways between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, running to re-connect with something deeper, wilder and more meaningful:

A first-generation U.S. citizen, [Rahhel] couldn't help but feel moved by the juxtaposition of her decision to run in the desert to with her family's recent history fleeing war in Eritrea. "I was running by choice, across states, while they ran for survival," Woldu said. "That contrast grounded me. Every step became a tribute to the women who brought me here."

She dedicated each leg of her journey to the women in her family—her great-grandmothers, grandmothers, and her mother. “It felt like it was a way for me to draw closer to the people that brought me here.”

Words to run by

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities… Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.”

— Charles Dickens

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