Brooks, who makes popular running shoes, created a “carnival bus” and drove around the country with it visiting Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon expos and running stores to show off their products and to do gait analysis on runners. This Autumn they stopped in at Maine Running Company where I got an opportunity to see what [...]
Read More...The 2nd annual Maine Coach and Athlete Cross Country Clinic was on August 18th, 2008 at the University of Southern Maine. This is the third part of my reporting on the clinic; the first part was about injury prevention and treatment and the second part was about nutrition basics and fueling. This part covers foot [...]
Read More...In a continuing collaboration with Scott over at Straight to the Bar, we will be writing about the technology of fitness equipment throughout the month of July. This week I would like to discuss the most important technology that a runner will deal with: running shoes. Why do runners buy shoes specifically for running? Running [...]
Read More...What are the best shoes to wear when racing down hill? That was the topic of the evening while on my group run tonight. One of the gentlemen I ran with tonight, Peter Buchanan of Edinburgh, is running the Mount Everest Marathon, which has a net loss of almost 6000 feet from start to finish. [...]
Read More...The Nike+ shoes that integrate with a runner’s iPod are about to become much more widely available. In an article discussing the upcoming future for Nike and it’s financial stability, there was a remark from Nike President and Chief Executive Mark Parker about the future of their running shoes. The company wouldn’t disclose everything that’s [...]
Read More...One thing that I have been asked a few times is how many pairs of shoes somebody needs to consider themselves a runner. A more frequent question is how many pairs of running shoes do I own. There is no one easy answer to this, and the answer depends slightly on how you train or [...]
Read More...It does not seem like a complicated thing to tie your shoes. A simple bow tie is all it takes, right? For everyday use, that is all you need. For running, it just is not enough. I’ll show you how to tie your shoes so that you never have to worry about a knot that [...]
Read More...Over the past week I had a series of posts about the care and maintenance of running shoes. In case you missed any of them, they were: The Care and Maintenance of Running Shoes Keep your shoes dry but not near heat Keep your shoes dry by pulling the insoles out Remove rocks and mud [...]
Read More...Has this ever happened to you? You go to the shoe store, get your feet fitted for shoes, and they fit perfectly. Then by the time you finish your first run, they are so tight that you have trouble getting them off. This is a not uncommon problem, and it comes from trying on shoes [...]
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