After the incredible race in Berlin it is time for the next Abbott World Marathon Major. This weekend is all about the Bank of America Chicago Marathon!This year’s lineup in Chicago boast an incredi...
Birhanu Legese made a stunning marathon debut in January, recording 2:04:15 in the Dubai Marathon. We find out more about the rising 24-year-old Ethiopian star of the NN Running Team, who is set to co...
A little like The Beatles more than 50 years ago, Abel Kirui has long held a desire to crack America.Since he was a young boy growing up in Nandi County in the North Rift of Kenya, the USA has always...
Eliud Kipchoge created shockwaves around the globe by obliterating the previous marathon world record and running an electrifying 2:01:39 on the streets of Berlin. Here we offer 12 good reasons why th...
Eliud Kipchoge has won the 2018 BMW Berlin marathon in a way only he could. Kipchoge set a new world record of 2:01.39 taking an unthinkable 1 minute and 18 seconds of the previous world record, set b...
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The NN Running Team is in for an exciting weekend. In this feature we would like to give you an overview of what to look out for and which teammates are running where.BMW Berlin Marathon – Sunday Se...
The superstars of the NN Running Team led by the incomparable marathon maestro Eliud Kipchoge will be looking to make a strong impact as the eagerly anticipated fall road running season bursts into ac...
Uganda has undergone a major progression in its overall athletics standards in recent years. This is how Global Sports Communication, and more latterly the NN Running Team, has played its part.Change...
Former Olympic 1500m athlete Mimi Belete of Bahrain has shown positive early signs in her transition into the marathon. Here we find out more about the 30-year-old NN Running Team recruit and her athl...
NN Running Team superstar Eliud Kipchoge, with input from his lifelong coach, Patrick Sang, reflects on the four most significant races of his career so far.1 – 2013 Hamburg Marathon – 1st 2:05:30...
After the pain of injury and disappointment at the Boston Marathon, Abdi Nageeye hopes to strike back to climb the podium at the forthcoming European Championships in Berlin.It was lying in bed in pai...
Former steeplechaser Ancuta Bobocel has been re-born in recent times as a prominent 10,000m and road running athlete. We find out more about the 30-year-old Romanian who heads to the European Champion...
As one of the newer recruits to the NN Running Team, Bashir Abdi arrives as an athlete with strong credentials. We find out more about fascinating journey of the 29-year-old distance star, who hopes t...
Following the launch of the NN Running Team in April last year the team has enjoyed a glut of success on the global road running stage. We ask a quintet of people from the NN Running community for the...
As the lifelong mentor and coach to marathon extraordinaire Eliud Kipchoge, Patrick Sang knows a thing or two about the value of implementing the long run as part of a training program. Here the NN Ru...
Our NN Running Team have literally taken the phrase eat, sleep and breathe athletics to the next level by revealing their most recent running-related dream.Eliud Kipchoge Following a stunning interna...
New York City Marathon champion and three-time World Half Marathon champion Geoffrey Kamworor brings us the lowdown on the most significant people in his world.Patrick Sang “Many people have done...
Athlete management duo Jurrie van der Velden and Valentijn Trouw have played a vital behind-the-scenes role in propelling NN Running Team athletes to glory across the globe. We chat to the astute pair...
Recently crowned Commonwealth 10,000m champion Stella Chesang is one of the rising stars in the NN Running Team stable. Here we find out more about the versatile and gifted Ugandan, who hopes to inspi...
NN Running Team photographer Dan Vernon has taken thousands of images of NN Running Team athletes in competition, training and in their home environment over the past year or so. Here the talented Bri...
As a remarkable nine-time winner from his ten marathons, we ask NN Running Team superstar Eliud Kipchoge what he has learned from his incomparable career over the 42.2km distance with input from his w...
Stephen Kissa and Joel Ayeko reveal what life is like on a typical training day (comprising two easy runs) inside the NN Running Team Ugandan training base in Kapchorwa.Who are Stephen and Joel? Step...
Ahead of Kenenisa Bekele’s latest outing in NN Running Team colours in the 10-mile Bern Grand Prix on Saturday (May 19), we focus on the Ethiopian’s passion for business.East African running great...
We chat to five NN Running Team athletes to find out more about their pre-race preparations on marathon day.Florence Kiplagat (KEN) – Two-time former Chicago and Berlin Marathon winner “I usually...
NN Running Team partner Beet It Sport, through their concentrated beetroot juice product, are providing a crucial edge for the Team. Here we found out more about the innovative product, which is helpi...
Kapkitony-based NN Running Team marathoner Stephen Chebogut is in action at the Hamburg Marathon on Sunday. Here the effervescent 33-year-old Kenyan offers a little more of his life and background.Lat...
Geoffrey Kirui was unquestionably one of the NN Running Team’s superstar performers in 2017 as the 25-year-old Kenyan stormed to success in both the Boston Marathon and at the London IAAF World Cham...
6 April 2018 marks one year since NN Group and Global Sports Communication introduced the NN Running Team: the first professional running team in the world. The team has achieved 52 victories, includi...
Gifted NN Running Team distance runner Mule Wasihun is among the favourites for Sunday’s NN Marathon Rotterdam but few athletes in the elite field will owe a debt of gratitude to the sport more than...
After enjoying a glorious first year highlighted by three Marathon Major victories, the NN Running Team will move into the heart of their second ever spring marathon campaign optimistic of further suc...
Today, Geoffrey Kamworor became the second man in history to win a hat-trick of World Half Marathon Championships.The Kenyan crossed the line in Valencia after 60:02, finishing ahead of Abraham Cherob...
NN Running Team star Geoffrey Kamworor hits the streets of Valencia on Saturday bidding to become the second man in history to win a hat-trick of World Half Marathon Championships. Here are seven good...
Irish marathoner, qualified doctor and NN Running Team member Paul Pollock offers his five-point guide to avoiding injury.1 – Be patient The most important element to running is to be patient and c...
Marathoner Anthony Maritim is one of the most outgoing and personable members of the NN Running Team. Here the Kaptagat-based athlete, who is in action in the Barcelona Marathon on March 11, reveals m...
NN Running Team star Kenenisa Bekele has enjoyed an incomparable career spanning almost 20 years. Here we reflect on ten very special moments from the Ethiopian running maestro’s dazzling time in th...
Former Paris and Frankfurt Marathon winner Vincent Kipruto, who is set to race in the Tokyo Marathon on Sunday, reflects on his road to winning marathon silver at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in...
NN Running coach William Kiplagat boasted a long and distinguished marathon career spanning 15 years. Here the 2:06:50 performer, former Rotterdam Marathon winner and Kenyan World Championship represe...
Ahead of Sunday’s Barcelona Half-Marathon we look back to the 2014 and 2015 editions when NN Running Team star Florence Kiplagat set women’s world half-marathon records of 65:12 and 65:09, respect...
The NN Running Team-base out of Kaptagat is not solely the reserve of the top Kenyan runners. Dutch marathon record-holder Abdi Nageeye lives and trains out of the camp as does Uganda’s former World...
Africa is perhaps best known for its stunning and unique wildlife, so when we travelled to the stunning continent to catch up with many of the leading NN Running Team athletes for a bit of fun we aske...
Ahead of the Tata Mumbai Marathon on January 21 we speak to the men’s and women’s course record holders, NN Running Team siblings Gideon and Valentine Kipketer.There is more than 4500km from Mumba...
Amsterdam Marathon winner Tadelech Bekele is among a group of exciting female performers with the NN Running Team. Here we find out more about the diminutive 26-year-old.Barking mad beginnings Born...
With the dawn of 2018 upon on and many New Year’s Resolutions set in place we speak to NN Running pacemaker, physio and all round good egg Marc Roig to give us his five-step guide for the running no...
NN Running Team creator Jos Hermens look back on a historic first year for a team which was chock-full of a bounty of golden memories.Since the project’s launch in April, the team achieved so much;...
Rising Swiss endurance ace Julien Wanders is one of the NN Running Team’s most promising young European-based athletes. Here the 21-year-old – who boasts a 10km road best of 28:13 – offers his f...
On April 6th of this year the NN Running Team was launched with the aim of putting the sport on more professional and innovative footing. One of our athletic objectives was to secure 100 ‘high profi...
The NN Running Team include a small but proud group of highly successful running mums. Here we chat to a trio of mothers to find out how they manage to successfully combine the demands of being a pro-...
Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has announced his first goal of the 2018 season by returning to London. A victory on the English streets would secure a hat-trick of wins in one of his favorite Abbott...
With former Olympic and World marathon champion Stephen Kiprotich returning to action in Sunday’s Fukuoka Marathon we bring you five things you didn’t know about the Ugandan NN Running Team star.H...
The global game of football plays a significant role in the relaxation and downtime of many members of the NN Running Team. Here the soccer-crazy athletes share their stories, memories and passion for...
Another hugely gifted performer within the ranks of the NN Running Team, Abera Kuma is set to compete in Sunday’s Valencia Marathon. Here we find out more about the 27-year-old Ethiopian’s accompl...
The NN Running Team has spread its tentacles across five key countries in Africa. Here we offer our guide to the training set up available to our athletes in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eritrea and South...
With Ghirmay Ghebreslassie defending his New York City Marathon title on Sunday we bring you the Eritrean and NN Running Team athlete’s burgeoning career and life in numbers.0 The number of times Gh...
Described by his coach Patrick Sang as “a warrior” few athletes can match the incredible versatility and sheer quality of Geoffrey Kamworor.A two-time World Half-Marathon, two-time World Cross Cou...
He is known as “Baby Police” because he is short, slightly baby-faced and, well, he runs for the police. We find out more about the ultra-reliable NN Running Team distance runner Philemon Rono, wh...
Emerging road running star Gladys Chesir makes her eagerly anticipated marathon debut in Amsterdam on Sunday. Here we offer our guide to the rise of the ever-smiling 24-year-old Kenyan Dressed for suc...
The charismatic Abel Kirui is unquestionably the “class clown” of the NN Running Team training group in Kaptagat, Kenya. A fun and entertaining presence, the quick-talking two-time former World ma...
Eliud Kipchoge (KEN) has come out as the champion of the 2017 BMW Berlin Marathon in a winning time of 2:03:32. In what was announced as the marathon of the century Kipchoge outran Guye Adole (ETH) in...
Maurten and the NN Running Team announced their collaboration earlier today. The Swedish tech startup will supply the team with sports fuels until year 2020.Maurten has invented and developed groundbr...
