One of my top shoes from last year was the New Balance 1400v2. It’s a simple, comfortable, no frills shoe that provided just enough cushion – kind of like an Ikea Poang chair: = Given that I tolerated the 9mm drop 1400v2 just fine, I thought I’d give the 10mm drop New Balance 890 v4 […]
Why Can’t Science Determine the Best Running Shoe?
January 10, 2014 By 48 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote a post on a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in which I predicted that media headlines/articles would get the interpretation of the results wrong. Well, yesterday Reuters published an article on the study titled “Switch to minimalist running shoes tied to injuries, pain.” And […]
Running in Winter: How to Keep Hands and Feet Warm When It’s Cold
January 9, 2014 By 22 Comments
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how to keep man-parts warm on runs in the winter. The response to that post was incredible (now nearing 15,000 hits!), so clearly it was a topic of interest to runners, especially considering how cold this winter has been in many parts of the world (one […]
Runblogger Reader Survey Results: Top Road Running Shoes of 2013
January 6, 2014 By 35 Comments
A few weeks ago I posted a survey asking Runblogger readers to vote for their top 3 road and trail shoes of 2013. The response was incredible! A total of 523 people submitted votes for top road shoes, and 233 submitted votes for top trail shoes. I’ve tallied the road shoe votes and the results […]
Nate’s Top 5 Trail Running Shoes of 2013
January 4, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Nate just posted his top trail shoes of 2013 over on his blog Biker Nate. He helpfully included a list of all of the trail shoes that he ran in last year, and narrowed that down to his five favorites. To give you a bit of perspective, Nate is a high-mileage trail runner who specializes […]
Review of YakTrax Run Traction Cleats
January 2, 2014 By 19 Comments
Dealing with traction on winter runs can be challenging for a road runner. Most of the time I find that a decent pair of lugged trail shoes suffices for mixed conditions on sidewalks and roads (mostly crusty ice and snow up here in NH), but there are certain times when a trail shoe alone won’t […]
Runblogger’s Top 5 Road Running Shoes of 2013
December 31, 2013 By 11 Comments
The year 2013 was a year of positive professional transition for me, but it was a bit of a bust when it came to running. The year started off a bit rocky, but I pulled things together enough to have a solid race at the Vermont City Marathon on Memorial Day weekend. I managed to […]
End of Year Poll: What Were Your Favorite Shoes of 2013
December 26, 2013 By 7 Comments
Normally at the end of each year I do a few posts summing up my favorite shoes of the year. I plan to do a list of my top 5 road shoes within the next week (Nate may do one for trail as well), but wanted to take a slightly different approach by asking you […]
Do Minimalist Shoes Increase Injury Risk?: Merry Christmas Vibram
December 24, 2013 By 31 Comments
Contrary to what you may read in the coming days about a new study that just came out, Vibram just got the best Christmas present they could have received. The question of whether minimalist running shoes reduce or increase injury risk has been debated extensively over the past 3-4 years. Much of this debate has […]
More on Man Parts and Running
December 20, 2013 By 7 Comments
I had no idea when I wrote my post yesterday on cold sensitivity in the man parts when wearing tights that it would be such a popular topic! In the past 24 hours the post has been viewed nearly 4000 times and has accumulated 91 comments and counting. Who knew! Well, it seems I’m not […]
Shorts Or No Shorts Over Running Tights – A Post on Winter Running
December 19, 2013 By 144 Comments
We’re all friends here right? Ok, so I’m going to cover a sensitive topic in this post (pun intended). Hold on tight! On Tuesday I went for a run in a snowstorm. The flakes were coming down pretty steadily, the roads and sidewalks were completely snow-covered, and the temperature when I left was 13 degrees […]
Update Your Runblogger RSS Feed
December 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Quick post. When I transitioned Runblogger from Blogger to WordPress, I also made the decision to abandon using Feedburner to serve my RSS feed. My reason is that Google no longer actively supports or develops Feedburner and I have no idea how much longer it will continue to exist as a service. If you have […]
This Is What Happiness Looks Like!
December 15, 2013 By 9 Comments
We got our first big snow of the season last night here in New Hampshire. One of my favorite forms of winter exercise is snowshoeing (a type of shoe I know almost nothing about!), so I decided to take my black lab Jack out for a trek. We stopped at the head of the trail […]
adidas Adios Boost Review – Great Shoe, If a Bit Pricey
December 12, 2013 By 64 Comments
For quite a long time I’ve avoided most any shoe over 8mm drop from heel to forefoot. However, a few months ago I bought a pair of New Balance 1400v2’s after hearing positive things about them from friends (damn you John Schrup!). I never tried the 1400v1 because the drop was above my preferred range […]
A New Blog, and A Post On Honesty in Blog Reviews
December 10, 2013 By 7 Comments
I love to write, and for several months I’ve been contemplating the idea of starting a second blog. Runblogger is my first home, but it has grown into more of a niche site than I originally intended, and a lot of the topics I’d like to write about would simply not fit well here. For […]
