The loneliest place to be in a race is at the start line. We've all been there, silent and still, standing in a corral with hundreds of strangers -- strangers who miles later would be comrades, who by the time you finished your 26.2 miles would be a brother or...

It's been called the sweetest left turn in the world, the corner of Hereford that leads to the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street.

For a few hours, once a year, Boylston becomes the hallowed ground for thousands of runners. Boston on this day doesn't...

Rob Watson’s first Boston Marathon will be forever etched in his memory, but the elation he felt as the top Canadian racer was soon overcome by frustration and grief at bombings that rocked the finish line of the storied race.

Watson, who finished in 11th place with a time of...

Yes, size does matter, at least when it comes to Canada’s collective cup collecting contest, and we have a lot of cups to prove it.

Many have asked whether there’s a conspiracy with the prize distribution in Tim Hortons' Roll Up The Rim To Win contest. Earlier this week, The...

Years ago, Gen Xers watched with interest as Baby Boomers struggled with the rise of technology while the popular culture morphed, languages changed, sensibilities shifted. Some Boomers scrambled to figure out Internet browsers, decipher acronyms and emoticons while others were just trying to answer the oft-repeated question: "What's with kids...

UPDATE: On Sunday, runners throughout New York City were volunteering. Some runners gathered to go to Staten Island, the start of marathon, with backpacks filled with donations. Others took part in an informal marathon run in Central Park where runners were asked to bring...

UPDATE: 10:55 p.m. ET Monday.

The Globe's editor in chief John Stackhouse has responded to the Margaret Wente crisis, saying that the work "did not meet the standards of The Globe and Mail." He said Wente has faced disciplinary action, without disclosing details. Also, the public editor Sylvia...

UPDATE, Aug. 12: Dylan Wykes finished in 20th in the marathon in a time of 2:15:26. Fellow Canadians Eric Gillis finished 22nd (2:16) and Reid Coolsaet (2:16:29) in 27th.

Dylan Wykes’ road to London began with a fall, at the start line with 7,000 runners behind him, his knees scraped...

Guts are a key ingredient in the makeup of any athlete who meddles in endurance sports. Just stand at the final 400 metres of any marathon, major or small, and you'll see it on the salt-stained faces of the finishers.

We like to celebrate during these Games the athletes who...

Dylan Wykes shunned meat for a vegetarian lifestyle because of ethical concerns. So like other vegetarians, every day he finds substitutes for protein, bolsters meals with supplements and yoyos on whether it was a good choice to ditch meat.

A pretty typical story of a vegetarian, except that Wykes is...

Legend is, the first marathoner was a man named Pheidippides, who in Ancient Greece was dispatched the distance from Marathon to Athens on foot announce victory.

"Rejoice, we conquer," were the last words he uttered, legend has it, before dying.

I crossed the finish line of my 20th marathon a...

There is no other speed in digital than full throttle, and so the first year has come and gone in a flash at The Huffington Post Canada. This week, we’re excited to mark our first birthday.

Behind the scenes, HuffPost Canada has been a hectic workplace. We’ve expanded...

Where are the readers? It's a question that many of us in the news industry have been asking. I won't lie: When I was asked last month at a conference what my biggest fear was, what keeps me up, I answered, "Where are the readers? Where have they gone?"

A...

Some emerge out of nowhere. Some we just know will take off the moment we hit publish.

Our top viral and most-read stories reveal an interesting portrait of the year: some are serious, some fun, some sobering, all of them shareable.

There was the case of the lucky sportscaster...

Our story on the shocking ultrasound that looked like a man's face on a testicular tumour sparked a slew of submissions by HuffPost readers.

It’s amazing what can appear before our eyes as we’re driving, making jelly or just looking up into the sky.

One reader saw Jesus...