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Trail Running Gear: Nathan Quickdraw Plus Water Bottle Review

The hybrid SUV of handheld water bottles. – David Hanenburg on the Nathan Quickdraw Plus A couple months  back when I purchased the efficient and minimalistic Amphipod Hydraform handheld water bottle, I also picked up a Nathan Quickdraw Plus to test drive as well. After a month of using the Nathan water bottle on many [...]

Trail Running Gear: Amphipod Hydraform Handheld Review

About a month ago I purchased a Amphipod Hydraform handheld water bottle and have been using it as my primary portable hydration source for some of my shorter runs and I also used it during the Rockledge Rumble 50 km trail run. My thoughts… Out of the Box The first thing I noticed about the [...]

Trail Running Shoe Review: New Balance MT100 – By Run the Ultras

Travis over at Run the Ultras put together a good video review/summary of the fairly new lightweight trail running shoe, the New Balance MT100. Travis and co-host Jason cover the features of the shoe from top-to-bottom, inside-and-out. These trail shoes weigh in at a feathery 7.3 oz (size 9) and may be worth investigating if [...]

Is The Garmin Forerunner 305 For Trail Runners?

Trees…Hills…Mountains How does the Garmin Forerunner 305 respond to these potential trail running GPS signal obstructions? First – What Could Be Affected Without GPS communication between the watch and satellites, most of the data besides Time and Heart Rate will probably be worthless since the watch uses GPS for determining most of the personal feedback [...]

Running Gear Review: The Stick

The Stick is a popular piece of running gear used for recovery and injury prevention. It is one of many I mentioned in my running recovery tools article. I asked Stephanie, an experience long course runner, to share her thoughts on this handy massage product as she had been using it for a few years [...]

Shoe Wallet Field Test – Results

After two three mile runs…broken. After mentioning the Shoe Wallet as one of the possible ways to carry some form of identification during your training runs, I decided to purchase a couple samples of the product to test out. My wife was the official field tester for this product. What a sport! Installation: No problems. [...]

The Running Gear Most People Forget

If you injure yourself or some bodily malfunction occurs during a run and you are unable to communicate, do you have a means to identify yourself? This is something I have rarely thought about until recently after participating in a marathon in which a young woman collapsed on the course and later died at a [...]