I’ve been running a bunch in Nike Free 3.0’s lately and came across this Nike commercial for the shoes. This takes miminalist running to a whole new level – have to give Nike credit for pushing the envelope with this ad :)
Archives for June 2009
Running Humor: Running Superfans from Brooks Running
June 29, 2009 By 2 Comments
Below are a few funny videos from the Running Superfans website by Brooks Running. You can visit the site for more good stuff here: http://runningsuperfans.com/. As a parent of two little ones, the last one is my favorite. Enjoy!
Blogger Tip: Drop Down Menu and Corner Peel Animation
June 28, 2009 By 1 Comment
I’m a firm believer in giving credit where it’s due. As I have worked on developing this blog, I’ve found number of immensely helpful fellow bloggers who have posted tutorials on how to customize your blogger blog. I had no idea when I first started out that blogger blogs could be customized to such an […]
Running in Heat: Crashing and Persevering with the Help of a Camelback, Energy Gel, and Cellphone
June 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
Today’s run sucked. In the two years that I’ve been running seriously, this was easily one of the top five in terms of overall suckitude. It was hot, it hurt, and I nearly bailed out on it halfway through. Sometimes, though, the worst runs can be the most satisfying, and today’s was very much one […]
Running Blisters: Horrific Footage from "The Distance of Truth"
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Over the past few weeks I’ve been dealing with the fallout from some nasty foot blisters resulting from running the Vermont City Marathon in the rain (see my blister photo if you dare). I thought I had it bad, then I watched this YouTube video of Ferg Hawke’s feet after his running of the Badwater […]
New Runblogger RSS Feed: Please Read if You are a Subscriber
June 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Quick post – as part of the process of converting this blog to a custom domain (www.runblogger.com), I have set up a new feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Runblogger. If you are subscribed to the old feed (This View of Life), please update to the new one if you wish to keep receiving updates from this blog. You can […]
Why Runblogger?: Reasons for the New Blog Title and URL
June 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been struggling a bit lately with a number of issues related to my newfound passion for blogging. When I first started out earlier this year, I set up one blog with no real idea of where it would take me or what the blog would ultimately focus on. As my blogging interests began to […]
Blog Tip: Using Who’s Amung Us to Track Blog Visitors and their Locations
June 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When I first started this blog, one of the initial things I wanted to know was if anyone was actually reading what I posted here. There are a number of ways one can track blog visitors at no cost, ranging from simple hit counters to more sophisticated services like Google Analytics. However, while surfing the […]
Walking in Marathons: Does it Disrespect the Race?
June 16, 2009 By 38 Comments
Image by Pabo76 I recently read an article on the Well Blog of the New York Times titled “Better Running Through Walking.” The author, Tara Parker-Pope, is training to run the New York City Marathon in November and is chronicling her journey on the NYT website (see Run Well on the Well Blog here). Her […]
Race Report: Run 4 Rusty 4-Miler (Concord, NH)
June 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
It’s not often that you get to run a race on one of your standard training routes, and it was with some excitement that I realized a few weeks ago that I would get to have that very opportunity. A new race in my hometown of Concord, the Run 4 Rusty 4-Miler, took place this […]
Running When You’re Not Feeling It
June 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes your best runs come on days when you least feel like getting out there – today was one of those days for me. The weather in NH has really been awful lately, and the consistent lack of sunlight has sucked the life out of me. On top of the horrid weather, […]
Climbing Mt. Monadnock with the Kids
June 8, 2009 By 5 Comments
My wife and I love to camp, and until we had kids, we were avid hikers. We once spent six weeks driving across the country from campsite to campsite, and were able to visit 15+ national parks. We lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for a summer, working on field crews doing animal surveys (salamanders […]
Wired Magazine: How Technology can Keep You Running
I just read an interesting article from the July 2009 issue of Wired Magazine titled “The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics.” The article, written by Mark McClusky, discusses the development of the Nike+ training device, and how it has revolutionized the running experience for many people (view my […]