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How many times have you struggled to see your cellphone’s screen when you were outdoors after a run or race? How many times have you watched other race participants struggle to see their cellphone screens? My current cellphone is a Sunbeam Wireless F1 Orchid, which I have had for more than two years. It is …
More than twenty years ago, I was approached by two researchers to investigate links between running shoes and various injuries. Specifically, they had found that more expensive running shoes (with ostensibly superior injury-prevention features) yielded greater injuries because of altered gaits. This was likely a manifestation of a gait homeostatic proccess, where runners subconsciously increased …
Is your Garmin Forerunner dead? Read this before you give up! My wife and I went for a six-mile walk with a friend last Saturday. I was wearing my Forerunner 235, which I had connected to a charging cable on Friday evening. It died at 1.40 miles into the walk. I suspected that I had …
Congratulations to SpryFeet.com Readers Club member Frank Valente for winning the birthday-month drawing for March, 2019. Frank won a Google Play copy of 123 Cellphone Tips for Runners and Walkers. You could be a future winner of one of my books — covering topics as diverse as run:walk pace tables, how to lose weight in …
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I didn’t run the 2018 Chevron Houston Marathon. That’s right. Even though my name shows in the official records as finishing in 5:56:33, I didn’t run it. No. I walked it. That’s right. I walked the entire marathon, and I finished within the six-hour time limit. Here are ten lessons that I learned or re-learned …
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Buddy the Elf advised me in January, 2017, to focus my ebook sales at Amazon. I like Buddy. His advice made sense at the time, but he missed three factors.
Wallets make some marathoners frown. They have their safety appeal to others. But, nobody wants to carry anything more than necessary. I have a solution.
There is no winner of the SpryFeet.com Readers Club birthday-month drawing for June, 2017. Why? Oddly, there is only one member of the SpryFeet.com Readers Club with a June birthday. Unfortunately, his home country is out-of-reach for mailing a gift efficiently.
Compression clothes have been confusing for many marathoners, including me. Is compression gear for marathoners a help, a hype, or a hope?
Cellphones are a touchy subject among marathoners. Some swear by them. Some swear at them. Either way, they’re becoming more popular for training & racing.