Running Blog of the Month! A random Googling of “Kathrine Switzer tennis dress” turned up what is possibly the funniest running blog we’ve read, well, maybe ever: 34,000 Miles Later. Tanya’s running scenarios include the grocery carts of nuns (Lucky Charms! Crest White Strips!), dissertations on running-lingo bloviators, and the startling effect on one’s ego [...]
The marketing department at Asics has gone bonkers. From the Daily Mail: “The new Asics GEL-KAYANO 16 contains cushioning which expands and contracts in harmony with a woman’s hormones.” The shoe’s “technology” is based on the premise that “when estrogen is high, and a woman is at her most fertile, the arch drops. Later in [...]
MMRCer and accountant extraordinaire Blair has an issue or two with literalism, especially when it comes to his choice of training routes. But running isn’t always about taking the easiest path, is it? Well, sure, unless of course that path happens to intersect the one to your front door. Read on >>