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Comment on Gifts Ideas For Runners – Women’s Edition by Steve2000

Steve2000 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:15:30 +0000

One gift for runners is the Body Bottle. It’s a water bottle that straps to the arm and found at: bodybottle.com

Comment on Strength Training For Runners by Clarice

Clarice — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:11:57 +0000

I couldn’t have put it better myself! I do stronglifts 5×5 (www.stronglifts.com) 3 times a week and run on the other days. Yes i have gained a lot of muscle, but since i’ve added running to my schedule, I have been toning quite nicely. Plan on running through fall and winter as well. Very excited!

Comment on Vibram Five Finger Shoes Review by justin

justin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:53:04 +0000

A few comments:

1) The picture you have is of the Bikila, which is a fivefingers model that won’t be available until 2010. Incidentally, that photo originated on birthdayshoes.com, but I don’t see any attribution on this post as to where you got it from (Please add a link if you want to keep this photo on this site as that is simply polite!).

2) Since you don’t have the ones pictured here, which model did you use to test?

3) Regarding how you run, you never actually mentioned how you run – do you heel-strike when you run? If you do, it’s not surprising that you’d be hurting so much after a 400 yard sprint. You simply can’t heel strike running barefoot or with VFFs.

Why would ankle or arch support make it 100x easier to run?

4) Why do you estimate it will take you over a year to get used to them? Depending on how slowly you take it transitioning to VFFs, you should not experience much pain — maybe some soreness as you rehabilitate atrophied muscles, but this isn’t very different from training any other muscle of your body.

5) Lots of people wear socks with fivefingers — but they are necessarily toe socks such as injinjis. If anything, wearing socks actually reduces chaffing and seems to make it less likely you’ll get blisters while wearing VFFs. On the other hand, they add weight and heat to your feet and just make for a tighter fit. Plus, who has 5-toed socks? At $10+ a pair, it’s easier to just toughen up and grow callouses. But yea, you can and people do wear socks with VFFs.

Interesting you like them for rock climbing — I’ve heard mixed reactions to their application in rock climbing as they apparently make things like smearing very difficult.

Comment on Beginner Distance by ron

ron — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:06:07 +0000

this is really good information. thank you very much.

Comment on Different brands of running shoes by Jack

Jack — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:35:45 +0000

You know any site where I can get coupon or discount code for running shoes?

Comment on Improve Your Endurance by Leslie Wong

Leslie Wong — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:39:45 +0000

This is something very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Comment on Entrance into the NYC Marathon by Marc

Marc — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:32 +0000

Runners who have completed 15 or more NYC Marathons can also get guaranteed acceptance…

Comment on Running with Power Gels by Josh

Josh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:19:07 +0000

CarbBoom! is the far superior gel out there – has no caffeine. I go everywhere with them – run bike hike. Chocolate-Cherry is my favourite.

Comment on Running on Treadmill vs Outdoors by elaine

elaine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:03:23 +0000

That’s so true, TX is extremely hot. I guess in extreme heat the hammy will have to do. It’s a shame that you can only run outdoors 2 months of the year. You should travel somewhere to do more races!

Comment on Running on Treadmill vs Outdoors by brandy

brandy — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:23:23 +0000

I WISH I had the option of running outdoors. I used to run relatively short distances (5 miles) when we lived back east, but since moving here to south TX, it is pretty much impossible to run anywhere either safely due to lack of sidewalks (and the easement from the road is used by drivers as the slow lane), or the ridiculously oppressive heat (in the mid-90’s even at 8 at night) make it unsafe.

Treadmill running has its place for someone like me that needs to ‘train teh body’ to at least maintain a certain pace, but I get boredboredbored by treadmills, and find that I tend to just shuffle off running altogether.

I like to run, and I wish I could run outdoors, and I guess until it cools down here (pretty much only December and JAnuary), I need to find other things to keep my occupied while I do my ‘hamster run’ on the dratted treadmill.