A while back I noticed a few of my runner blogging buddies got to test out the Sony Walkman MP3 players. I was not one of these people but after reading their reviews I was intrigued. Mostly because there were no wires, I thought that would be awesome because I am always trying to figure [...]
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Wanted to give a little update on my plantar fasciitis/heel spur issues and my footwear. Last time I wrote I was wearing Brook Launches and working in the Kinvaras. As the weeks passed by I gradually increased my mileage in the Kinvaras and decreased my mileage in the Launches. I found that after a while [...]
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My husband has developed out some iPhone apps for runners that I find useful and thought maybe some of you would as well. The most popular is the free Running Pace Calculator. By entering a recent or goal race time and distance it will calculate your pace per mile. It will also calculate approximate equivalent [...]
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Now that the heel spur and plantar fasciitis pain is nonexistent on most of my runs I have started to added some minimalist shoes back in the rotation. I know that the podiatrist I went to would advise against this, since he is against minimalist and barefoot running. When I asked about it, he told [...]
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A while back I made a switch. I abandoned my beloved Garmin Forerunner 305 for the sleeker Garmin Forerunner 405 . In all fairness the 305 was great. I really have no complaints about how it functioned. It got me through many hours and miles of running. The battery life was great..it never died on a run [...]
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Being injured sucks but sometimes through the desperation of finding something to stop the pain you come across some great products. I recently purchased the Ice-Up Stick. This product makes giving yourself an ice massage easy. No more cold fingers that I was getting by just using dixie cups (tearing away the top as the [...]
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A couple of weeks after I ran the Rock and Roll San Antonio marathon my right ITB has been tight and painful. The knee pain has made me walk home a couple of times from a run or cut a run short. I keep thinking I have moved past it and then it comes back. [...]
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Since I wrote about my Nike Free yesterday, I thought I would write about the shoe I run in the rest of the time today Brooks Women’s Launch Running Shoe. After I started running in the Nike Free once or twice a week I really started to hate running in my old Asics 2140. They [...]
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In an effort to gain the benefits of barefoot running without actually running barefoot or running in my vibrams (which I love but still haven’t managed to run more than 4 mile in) I bought a pair of Nike Wmns Free 5.0 V4 354751-301. I really love this shoe. They are light and comfortable. They [...]
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Just like many other runners I have read the articles on barefoot running and the book “Born to Run” and been intrigued by the possible benefits. At first it sounded wacky to me because of all the hype sneakers get and how I’ve often read that most of us need running sneakers to correct our [...]
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