[incision]

>'...the content itself is worth reading.'

It sure looks that way and I'm normally pretty tolerant of design flourishes, but I find this simply unbearable.

Still, I really wanted to read this, but neither Pocket, Readability nor Instapaper are able to pull more than a few paragraphs of usable text out of it.

The design isn't just bad or annoying it's hostile.

[kazinator]

In addition to my observation that disabling JavaScript from runnersworld.com stops all the effects while evidently showing all the content nicely, I'd like to add that the page renders very nicely in the print view of the FireFox add-on known as "Print Edit". "Print Edit" lets you trim out superfluous junk from the document, and then print it or save a copy.