"I've always been a huge shoe geek. Started back in the day when my mom would take me to the local brown shoe store for new kicks for school, and my favorite part was when the gentlemen would measure me up with the Brannock . Now, working in running, I love fitting runners for their n...
Although not always easy to pin down, Americana and alt-country emerged from a mishmash of genres rooted in the U.S.: folk, country, blues, R&B, rock and roll, and bluegrass. It’s a broad labeling, sure, but one that captures a general lo-fi sound and unpolished rock-and-roll energy. ...
Warm Up and Build Your Running Game Slowly. This may not seem like a form tip, but it certainly is, especially if you sit during the day and head out for your run post-work with your hips and hamstrings so tight you could play a tune on them. Invest at least three to five minutes in w...
Train by effort, race by effort. The body doesn’t know pace, it knows effort, and effort is the perfect tool for optimal training and racing. Training by how your body feels (breathing rate) will always guide you in training and racing in the right zone based on the given day. Where r...
After a hard day at the office, I enjoy a beer as I relax and unwind. I’m not a heavy drinker, but I’m in training for a 10-K, and I was wondering if a drink now and then might hurt my performance? Alcohol continues to be the most frequently consumed drug among athletes and habitual e...
For the last year of Colleen Kelly Alexander’s life, listening to music while training has been more than a way to pass the miles. It’s been the only thing keeping her from having a mid-run breakdown. On October 8, 2011, on a cloudless fall morning in southern Connecticut, the competi...
For the last year of Colleen Kelly Alexander’s life, listening to music while training has been more than a way to pass the miles. It’s been the only thing keeping her from having a mid-run breakdown. On October 8, 2011, on a cloudless fall morning in southern Connecticut, the competi...
For instance, track starts are known to utilize the traditional form of plyometrics with more quick, explosive jumps to create muscular power and speed. Long-distance runners lean more towards a modified version of plyometrics that focuses on longer, less intense movements such as 30-...
Tomato Watermelon Salad If you have access to fresh, ripe tomatoes this time of year, try combining them with watermelon, mint, and a few other ingredients. The result tastes like summer. Get the Recipe Guacamole-Topped Bacon Bites This simple hors d'oeuvre combines two of the tasties...
I ran it. The past tense never felt so good. Not “will run,” especially not “running,” but “ran.” I ran a 5K, and it was glorious- at least in hindsight. The day finally arrived. My Marissa and I set out for Wilmington, North Carolina the previous night. Before we went to bed, I had t...
Most Ravenous Runner posts are about a specific dish. This one will be a little different, in that it's about a vegetable you may have never heard about. Fiddleheads are the coiled fronds of the ostrich fern. You can see in the photo above how they got their name. The ferns grow near ...
Inside the Doctor's Office: How to Beat Hip Pain Dr. Metzl teaches you how to recognize, prevent, and treat 3 common types of hip pain. Inside The Doctor's Office: Pain in the Back Dr. Metzl shows you how to deal with three different pains in the lower back. Inside the Doctor's Office...
To eliminate concerns about if the funds would actually be donated, Resnick worked through eBay’s charitable giving program, which sends the sale amount directly to the nonprofit. The One Fund wasn’t available, so he selected the American Red Cross of Eastern Massachusetts as the bene...
More than 2,200 people have said they will be attending #onerun —the name is a nod to the victim relief fund, The One Fund and the race’s final mile— according to its Facebook page . Organizers expect that number to swell to as many as 4,000 on Saturday morning, May 25, at 10 a.m. whe...
It’s too early to consider that now, another senior town official says. “Some people are still catching up on their sleep from what happened” on Patriot’s Day, this person says. But on the streets of the small town that has had a sometimes touchy relationship with the event that makes...
Despite what the Internet may tell you, there's a very short list of legal performance-enhancing supplements with reasonable evidence behind them. There's caffeine and creatine. Lately beet juice has been making a good bid to join the list. And another emerging candidate is beta-alani...
A self-described recreational runner, Scott says he would rather take to the local trails instead of pinning on race bibs. "There is something organic and primal about keeping it minimal and simple while running wild on the trails," Scott says. "There are a number of places immediate ...
And since the whole world know should know there's a streaking in progress, we had Brian Kelley, author of the running blog, Pavement Runner , develop the badges below to add to your social media accounts. Download the badges and a Facebook cover photo here . If you finish the streak,...
It’s that time of year again. Many of you have completed your spring goal races, and training for fall races doesn’t start for another month or two. Summer is also around the corner and the beach, ice cream, BBQs, and vacations are likely calling your name, giving you countless reason...
More than 2,200 people have said they will be attending #onerun —the name is a nod to the victim relief fund, The One Fund and the race’s final mile— according to its Facebook page . Organizers expect that number to swell to as many as 4,000 on Saturday morning, May 25, at 10 a.m. whe...
New regulations for sunscreen set by the Food and Drug Administration have done little to improve the safety and effectiveness of sunscreen products on the market for the 2013 season, a review by the watchdog organization Environmental Working Group has found. Only one quarter of the ...
Jealousy, a Jogger, and Cans of UDL (Warrnambool, Australia) Nadine May Leslie, 24, of Ocean Grove, Warrnambool, pleaded guilty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court this week to assault by kicking. Police alleged that at 11am on January 26 Leslie and her partner were walking in Warrnamboo...
We don’t go around quoting the forces (or “kinetics”) that result from these differences--not the way we discuss our blood pressure and cholesterol readings--because we don’t actually know these forces. Most of us haven’t been evaluated in a biomechanics lab. But we wouldn’t be the le...
This recent post on the blog Obesity Panacea caught my attention. It's a guest post from Jameson Voss, a medical resident at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, about a recent study he and his colleagues did looking the links between altitude and obesity rates, p...
Strength training and core workouts go hand in hand with running. While experts may disagree on exactly which muscles comprise the "core" group, they almost all agree that improving muscular strength by developing the postural muscles will reduce your risk of injury and improve your p...
Description from Half-Marathon Guide, February 2013: “It’s hill after hill after hill,” says local runner Stacey Ellerman. Indeed. Rolling hills throughout. Six are named. Three become ingrained in your calves: mile-long Hospital Hill; Broadway’s long, slow grind in the bite-me zone (...
can be a real bugger for runners and a very common source of pain. It is often the victim of abnormal mechanics, so the cure lies in finding the culprit. The muscle is located in the buttocks and is part of a group of muscles that are labeled the lateral rotators. The individual funct...
After a hard day at the office, I enjoy a beer as I relax and unwind. I’m not a heavy drinker, but I’m in training for a 10-K, and I was wondering if a drink now and then might hurt my performance? Alcohol continues to be the most frequently consumed drug among athletes and habitual e...
Though no fun at the time, experiencing some hardship in life can give you a reserve of resiliency to call upon in the future, say, when a long run gets tough or you’re suffering through the final miles of a 10-K, a new study in Psychological Science suggests. The study, led by Mark S...
I’ve been out of shape for the past few years and I’m trying to start running. The problem is every time I try, I get through about one or two weeks and stop. I have a hard time following a training plan with all the intervals. Is it just me, or is there a chance I can actually run so...
