About three weeks ago, just a few days after my son (third child) was born, I posed the following question to my friends on dailymile: “Help a new parent!!! As a father of a newborn, I’m looking for suggestions of how to handle training with a baby in the house from those who have been […]
Archives for April 2010
Running Through Parenthood: More Tips From my dailymile Friends on How to Stay Active With a Baby in the House
Exercising With a Baby in the House: Tips for Parents on How to Stay Active
A few weeks ago I posted a question on dailymile asking how people managed to stay active with a newborn baby in the house (my current challenge!). In addition to the great responses I got in the comments after my post, I also received a very thoughtful message from my dailymile friend Christina H. of […]
Casio Exilim EX-F1 Camera Review: High-Quality, Affordable Slow-Motion Video for Athletic and Biomechanical Analysis
I have a fairly long history of working with high-speed (i.e., slow-motion) video. As a graduate student, I did my dissertation research in a lab that specialized in locomotor and feeding biomechanics of animals, and to do these types of studies, the ability to film at very high frame rates (200 frames/second and up) was […]
Casio EX FC-100
While the EX-F1 is a great tool for my research lab, its nearly $1000 price tag and SLR-ish size make it an unlikely choice for the average user who simply wants a pocket-size camera that will allow them to play around with slow motion. Given my positive experience with the EX-F1, I went ahead and […]
Vibram Fivefingers Bikila in the Boston Marathon
Italian runner Corrado Giambalvo ran the 2010 Boston Marathon in the just released Vibram Fivefingers Bikila. Here’s a video of Corrado being interviewed before the race by Vibram CEO Tony Post (he finished the Boston Marathon in a time of 3:23:27). CEO Tony Post and Corrado Giambalvo at the Boston Marathon from Vibram5fingers on Vimeo.Vibram […]
Ryan Hall in Slow Motion from the 2010 Boston Marathon
Two of my students went down to Boston on Monday and filmed a good chunk of the marathon for me in slow motion. Here’s a video to whet your appetite – Ryan Hall is most definitely a midfoot striker, and what a thing of beauty that stride is! This video was shot at 300 frames/second […]
Spirit of the Marathon
Marathon Monday is perhaps the biggest day of the year for endurance runners, but if you don’t get a chance to watch the race in Boston, this video might just be the next best thing: Spirit of the Marathon.
Wired’s Crappy Review of the Nike Free Run+: Ignoring Running Science and Themselves
In my previous post (On Minimalist Running Shoes: Vibram has Balls, Nike Dropped Them), I expressed my disappointment with Nike for the direction they appear to be heading with their Free line of “barefoot-simulating” running shoes. In particular, I feel that marketing of the new Nike Free Run+ as a “barefoot-like” shoe is disingenuous, particularly […]
On Minimalist Running Shoes: Vibram has Balls, Nike Dropped Them
Earlier today I wrote a blog post about Nike’s release of the new Nike Free Run+. As I was driving home, I got to thinking about why I was disappointed by this shoe (these are the things I think about, and yes, I do have a problem…), and this post began to crystallize in my […]
New Nike Free Run+ Featured on Nike Running Blog
The newest incarnation of Nike’s Free line of running shoes, the Nike Free Run+, is now featured on the Nike Running website (see image to the left from the Nike Running Blog). Here’s how they introduce this brand new shoe (quote is from inside.nike.com): “Barefoot running. Everyone’s talking about how great it is, but is […]
On Qualifying for the Boston Marathon: My Quest for a BQ
Image via Wikipedia What follows is an except from a post I just published to the dailymile Community Blog: If you asked me 5 years ago what the letters BQ stand for, I would have had no idea. Back then I was overweight, out of shape, and the idea of qualifying for the Boston Marathon, […]
Pearl Izumi Puts Clothes on Uranus
This is a great add for Pearl Izumi that was posted by my friend John H. on dailymile. It’s good to know the your anus Uranus will be covered.
Nike Free Run+: Corrections and Additional Thoughts
I apologize for writing yet another post on the Nike Free Run+, but for some reason this shoe has made me think a lot about what a barefoot-like running shoe should be, and this post clarifies and corrects some of the points that I have made in previous posts. I wanted to first send out […]