Now that the weather has been getting colder and I've been running regularly in the NH winter, I have received a number of questions about how cold is too cold for me to get a run in. I have yet to reach a lower limit so far this year - the day I...

Friday was a reading day before exams start next week the college where I teach, so I took the opportunity while my kids wee in school in the morning to get out for a run with my good buddy Jack.  It was frigid out - 5-10 degrees Fahrenheit with the...

In my previous post, I posed the following question to Ian Adamson, director of product development and education for the Newton Running Company: Me: Available data indicate that most people are heel-strikers. Is it your belief that the presence...

Last week I published a post with a series of slow-motion videos of me running on a treadmill in different types of footwear (stability shoe to fully barefoot), with a specific goal of looking at if/how my footstrike might change with different types...

Back in October I received an e-mail from a start-up company that was getting set to enter into the workout apparel market.  The company, called thriv, produces performance workout clothing made from bamboo fiber and organic cotton, and in return for...