My Garmin GPS watch has a built-in heart rate monitor. It communicates with a sensor that I strap around my chest. Then while I'm running I can read my heart rate real-time on the watch. It's a very useful feature. I don't use it. Why not? Well, the strap is annoying to wear. And I …
How Fit Are You? Ask Your Clothes
A year ago or so, out enjoying a group run, my serenity was suddenly interrupted when the right hip of the runner in front of me began talking. "You have completed three miles," it told us. "You are thirty seconds behind your target pace." Its tone carried the implied command, Step it up, sluggard. Had …
How to Get Hot Women Runners to Notice You
MY WIFE WORRIES when I head out to a race, decked out in my neon shoes, tech shirt, and compression shorts. "What are you going to do," she asks me, "when all those hot women throw themselves at you?" Until now, oddly, this hasn't been a problem. However, at last week's Hightail to Ale 5K …
Cure for a DNF: Water, Shade, and Perspective
One week after the Glacier Ridge 50-miler DNF and feeling much better. Ran Saturday morning with PR Fitness, holding it to 8 miles per Coach's direction (OK, 8.3 miles, but she wasn't looking). About halfway out it began to rain. Some people grumbled, but I loved every minute of it. Man, could I have used some …
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