Track and Field

Bright Idea: Scalping Entries to the Houston Marathon

Best Bobsledder

Meg Henderson

22nd Annual ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run

Web exclusive!

12th Annual Texas Children's Hospital Kids' Fun Run

Get up all you baby couch potatoes, it's Fun Run time

Houston Homeless Run

Web exclusive!

Car Stereo (Wars), Voxtrot, The Mathletes

Web exclusive!

Bayousphere

Web exclusive!

Chevron Houston Marathon

Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

Everybody, Run!

Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

Yeah, on the Catwalk

Runners from around the world will challenge the race’s course records

Stars of Track and Field

Stars of Track and Field perform Saturday, May 12, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846. Joseph Arthur also performs.

Think Thin

Diet season is here -- which one will you choose?

Get the Shaft

Pole-vaulting classes at Rice U will lift your spirits

Power Plays

The women of the Houston Energy light up the field

G Unit

Beg for Mercy (Interscope)

Globe Box

Both women and men duke it out at a world-class fight card

Best Place to See a College Game

Rice Stadium

Best Sangria

Otilia's

The Pretender

Rodrigo Montano passed himself off as a Rice University student. Is he deluded or just the worst con artist in town?

Olympic Moments

A marathon through the downtown tunnel, a rowing venue in a flooded Katy Freeway, the javelina throw -- how splendid, how Houston!

Best Participatory Sporting Event

Houston Marathon, www.compaqhoustonmarathon.com

A Dying Race

Houston boasts some of the biggest track legends in the world. Who cares? They do.

Let's Order Run Service

The Running Companion service

Press Picks

The Running Companion service

Getting Into The Houston Marathon Is Not A Sprint

The hysteria hit at a minute past midnight. Thousands of avid runners had stayed up well past their bedtimes Thursday night and into Friday morning to catch the start of registration for January's Houston Marathon, which had been aggressively advertised as 12:01 a.m. sharp. That's exactly when the ... More >>

A N00b Runs the Houston Chevron Half-Marathon

Photos by Jason McElweenie / Click here for a slideshowRunners in the marathon, some of whom dressed like Disney characters.​Every January for the last several years I have stood on a curb along Allen Parkway, cheering for my friends in the early hours of a Sunday as they competed in the Chevr ... More >>

23rd Annual ConocoPhillips Rodeo Run

It’s a human stampede - for a good cause

Galveston Gets Its First Marathon In Over A Decade

Galveston Mardi Gras Marathon: No guns allowed​Angry runners shut out of this year's first ever Chevron Houston Marathon lottery still have a chance to go the distance this winter thanks to the revival of a marathon on Galveston Island. The island hasn't had a full marathon since the mid-1990s, ac ... More >>

Katy Man Will Run Houston Marathon "With" His Wife, Who's Serving in Afghanistan

Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>

39th Annual Chevron Marathon Houston

Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>

DockDogs

Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>

TXU Energy Turkey Trot

Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>

40th Anniversary Chevron Houston Marathon

Running in Houston and at Forward Operating Base Ghanzi in Afghanistan​Craig Childs of Katy is running in the half-marathon that's part of the Chevron Houston Marathon. He'll be running with his wife. Even though Lt. Laura Childs will be in Afghanistan that day. As they did in 2007, marathon ... More >>