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Start your weekend here, with a round-up of some of the best athletics, running and fitness-related stories from the past seven days.

My relationship with running started as an arranged marriage. I’d tried to start something with it once or twice before - though no one would ever in a million years have used the words ‘speed dating’ to describe the process.

It may be a niche genre, but athletics movies tend to perform pretty well during awards season.

The 24th edition of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships will take place on 29 March in Gdynia, a city of 246,000 residents on Poland’s Baltic coast.

Australia’s Sinead Diver finished just 32 seconds shy of a podium place at last weekend’s New York City Marathon.

Songs that fire up the world 200m champion

Our guide to the best running spots in cities around the world.

I can’t keep up. As I chug across the rolling grasslands of Ethiopia, it takes about 45 seconds before I’m painfully aware of my own absolute, overwhelming and slightly mortifying mediocrity.