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 …
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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 …
Melted at the Glacier Ridge
I slowly walked over to the aid station checkout desk. The nice lady there looked up at me. "What do you think, Jeff?" she asked. "Well, I'm stupid enough to try," I said. I was hoping for a laugh. Instead I got a look of motherly concern that made my heart sink. "You have no …
