Diego Poncelet reached 94.34 mph on a skateboard in Quebec, setting a new Guinness World Record for the fastest standing downhill skateboard speed.

Speed is one of humanity’s oldest obsessions. From the moment we first watched a cheetah blur across the savanna or felt a storm roll in faster than we could run, we’ve been captivated by the question ...

As a former Division I runner at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Stephen Biebelhausen still has a competitive streak. But in his preparation leading up to the annual Guardian Mile race in Cleveland, ...

In the July 1979 issue of The Railway Magazine, O. S. Nock described an attempt by Western Region to set a world record for start-to-stop average speed by t ...