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Gear

What’s in your running bag? 10 essential items for taking your run on the road

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Now that I have started training again I had to locate my running bag and examine it’s contents.  I threw out the old Power Bar wrappers, collected the sticky pennies from the bottom and washed my favorite “after a run soft sweatshirt”.  Running bag? Yes, I think every runner needs one while training  (it does not have to [...]

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I Love Lucy : Lucy.com that is – for running gear with zippered pockets

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Running clothes with zippered pockets-why aren’t they everywhere?  Isn’t every runner clamoring for them? I covet a pocket for my keys and, on long runs, to carry my ipod and GU (but never in the same pocket: Boston Marathon, 2009).
The fitness retailer, Lucy, understands me. I first encountered Lucy in the hip and green city [...]

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Need a Personal Shopper for your running gear bargains? Shop It To Me Running does it for you!

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“Get the heads up when retailers put your favorite running shoe models, running clothing and gear on sale in your size!  Plus it’s Free!”
Shop It To Me Running
This new web service could not only be a recession buster, but a time saver for us busy running women.  My savvy niece Devon Ruth sent [...]

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*Clif Note – liking the new Quench Sports Drink

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Obsession takes hold – I am out of my boot cast and into the grocery store health food aisle.  The Chicago Marathon is imminent.  I noticed the new Clif Quench Sport Drink on the shelf from Clif Bar. I get genuinely excited about new electrolyte drinks (I know…scary thought).  It is 88% organic (and yes, wondering about that other 12%…), [...]

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The After Life – Fashionable Post Run Gear

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It was a great Mother’s Day this year.  My son and his girlfriend surprised me by showing up on the doorstep late Friday night (hungry and tired from a week of finals:).  They were amused at my declaration to my husband that no present was needed this year as I had already ordered mine online.   Running stuff again?  “Not just [...]

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Nike Naked — Funny Bare All Camp Video

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If you haven’t already seen this very entertaining video put out by Nike to sell their Nike Free Products…enjoy!  It is amazing how they got all these world class runners to appear in the buff (bodies of inspiration for us!).  Make sure you watch until the end to see a naked Goucher:)

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From Run(ning)way to Realway- Getting Kara Goucher’s Boston Marathon Look

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Looking for the outfit that Kara Goucher sported in the Boston Marathon? Links to her fushia and black running attire for a little more $ and a little less $.

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New Running Tees for “long distance friends”

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Since I have been injured I have greatly missed many things about running, but nothing as much as my “long distance friends” (LDFs).  LDF’s are the inspiration for these new Remanents’ running tees.  If you have clocked miles and miles with your own LDF, then you also know that “distance makes the heart grow stronger”. Now available online only at www.remanents.com.

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[product pre-view] The end of run chafing?

March 3, 2009

There is nothing quite like the moment you get in the shower after a long run and you realized you have been chaffed in a place you were not aware .  The sting brings me back to the schoolyard falls that left raw scrapes to be sprayed with Bactine .  It can be excruciating and sometimes it makes me [...]

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About Face…running is tough on your skin–Olay [is] for You

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There is an upside to being injured that I had not thought of before now.  My skin seems to be on the repair from the weathered/leather runner look I was begining to get after so many miles.  So why hasn’t anyone done a runner’s skin care line? It’s been on my mind.  So when I was [...]

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