As a reminder that life comes at you quick, this is compilation of children running into funhouse mirrors. Were valuable lessons learned? It’s hard to say. And what would those lessons have been? Looks can be deceiving? Or never dive head-first into the unknown? Or maybe it’s don’t trust your

This is a short video demonstration of the energy return of a carbon plate running shoe (one with a carbon plate in the midsole designed to increase energy return with each step and reduce fatigue) versus a regular running shoe. That…was a drastic difference. Almost as good as flubber, but

Captured by nature photographer Fernando Maidana, this is a video of a capybara (a giant rodent, like my previous roommate turned out to be) smoothly running across the bottom of a river at the Recanto Ecológico Rio da Prata in Jardim in Brazil. I assume it opted for the underwater

This is a video of Swedish track and fielder Jesper Hellström competing in the 2022 European Championship finals and things going sideways (namely, him) during his jump. Hey, it happens. If I had a dollar for every time things didn’t go the way I’d planned, I’d have a dollar for

American track and field sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson recently set a new world record in the women’s 100m (despite running in a disadvantageous outer lane) at the 2023 World Athletics Championship in Budapest with a time of 10.26 seconds, beating the previous world record by 0.02 seconds. As you may recall,

This is a video from the Tokay Stakes 2023 in Nagoya, Japan of Number 5 horse Vanyar losing its jockey right at the starting gate, running the whole race by itself, and winning. Unfortunately for Vanyar, horses that finish jockeyless are disqualified, so 2nd place (normally the first loser) took

Because exercise is important, this is a video of TikTok user texast_85’s domesticated pet squirrel Daisy running along the top of a ceiling fan blades like a hamster wheel. Such finesse. Squirrels are so good with their feet, they hardly ever miss a step. They are not so good with

This is a video that’s been mirrored for some reason (I’m great at reading credit card numbers upside-down and backwards) of a runner willing to go the extra mile (or meter), by Supermanning across the finish line, beating out an opponent who thought he had the race in the bag.