How to Gear up for Winter Running

IT'S BEEN A BIT NIPPY OUTSIDE, as those of you in the Midwest may have noticed, and at under 30 degrees, my running gloves just cannot keep my hands warm. I have Brooks mittens that do the job, but I could not find them. My daughter, who also runs, dug around in her car and …

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Supercooled

THE 15 DEGREE FORECAST FOR SUNDAY'S RACE TURNED OUT TO BE OPTIMISTIC. When I arrived at the Novi Civic Center for the Super 5K, my car's thermometer read 9 degrees. I didn't want to think about the wind chill. And yet over 1,400 runners showed up. That's the count of finishers, anyway. I'm not sure …

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Non-Marathon Man

LOOKS LIKE NO MARATHON THIS YEAR FOR ME. My 2013 race schedule looks a lot like last year's, kicking off with the Super 5K this Sunday and continuing favorites like the Martian and Dexter-Ann Arbor half marathons. But no 26.2 in the plan. It feels sort of awkward when everyone else in the PR Fitness …

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Where Runners Fear to Tread

SO HOW COLD WAS IT OUT THERE TODAY? I saw Eskimos at the warming station. Lame. Try again. Uhhh....the South Polar Station sent blankets to us. Meh. Give me something really wild. It was so cold out that Jeff did his run today on a treadmill. Wow. Now that's cold. I'm no stranger to running …

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