Merrell has recently launched their new series of minimalist active and casual shoes called their Barefoot collection. I was fortunate enough to receive a pair of their off-road minimalist shoes called the Merrell Trail Glove. I have had the Trail Gloves for about a month of periodic wear that has consisted of  a full day [...]

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How would you like a daily living room massage to support your running adventures? Yes, Please! Well unless you live with someone that has jedi master massage skills, this is likely not happenin’. For everyone else, Trigger Point Performance Therapy has a synergistic team of self-massage products that are described to be able to provide [...]

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INOV-8 creates one of the largest line-ups of trail running shoes that I have seen. The good and bad of this is that you have a lot of choices AND you have a lot of choices. The wide array of running shoes can sometimes freak a person out and cause that deer in headlights look. Over the [...]

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Using your hands to carry three handheld water bottles, camera, and nutrition while running requires a skill few have any desire to master. Welcome the hydration pack! I had been a fan of CamelBak hydration packs during my focused mountain biking days and I was curious to try out one of their run designed packs [...]

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Muscle balancing and injury rehabilitation/prevention in one package. The Injured Runner – A Balanced Solution DVD claimed to have this and more. In my desire to return from the ultrarunning dead and have a happy left knee, I had to check it out. What I really liked about the description of the product is the running specific balanced [...]

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Most of you probably know of coach Greg McMillan because of his useful running calculator and possibly his coaching program. Greg has also created a set of three core workout DVDs specifically created for us – the runner. As trail and ultra runners, a strong trunk seems hugely beneficial to support you, the runner, especially as [...]

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Amphipod has recently delivered a stainless steel handheld water bottle ready for the trails, called their PURErun series. Being a stainless steel bottle fan, I purchased the Amphipod PURErun Handheld. As exciting as water bottles can ever be, I was quite curious in hydra-testing it. Glamour Shot She might have a little dust on her but [...]

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