When Gold Coast Airport Marathon Chairman Kerry Watson gathered together some the organisation’s most creative thinkers, their job was to select a theme that would grab the attention of runners across the globe—a name that would symbolise all aspects of the 37th run scheduled for 4 and 5 July 2015.

On 4 April, Dana & Sarah Films premiered a new documentary about the Tarahumara running tribe. The film titled – GOSHEN: Places of Refuge for the Running People was directed and produced by Dana Richardson and Sarah Zentz. In the film, it shares an eye opening investigation of the Tarahumara people’s unique diet, ultra-running endurance, and natural running with minimal footwear.

The Corporate Challenge, Singapore’s first and most popular road race geared exclusively to the workforce, has reached a full capacity of entrants in 11 of its 12 years. The 5.6km race began on the Esplanade Bridge and finished adjacent to the F1 Pit Building at Marina Bay on 23 April, evening after office hours.

To many of us, April is the month to decorate Easter eggs, seek out those hidden eggs or, to get ready for a new term/semester in school. Yet, do you know that April is Earth Month too? I bet many of you are clueless about that!

How wild and fanciful is your imagination? Do you dream about illogical situations where you’re running on a strange turf, or you realise that you you’ve forgotten to put on your shorts and you hit the start line at a marathon wearing nothing but a smile? Every runner has fanciful dreams (and a few nightmares) about their favourite physical activity, which is why you will like the unusual solutions we’ve found to this thought: What if running shoes didn’t exist? Are you ready to consider crazy, clever and quirky alternatives that have the potential to keep your feet ensconced in some form or another while you undertake your sport? The following ‘shoe’ alternatives may not all sound practical, but they are certainly fun to consider!

It’s another training day and perhaps you are getting tired of your run. Maybe you can switch up your pace, or explore a new route, or train at a different time—morning runners, try running at dusk and vice versa.