Archives for “Running”

Using built in sensors, the Fitbit captures ‘three dimensional motion’ to provide insight as to the amount of activity and sleep you log each day. It compiles this data and based on your sex, height, weight and age calculates daily the amount of steps taken (reported to be 85-97% accurate), miles traveled, calories burned, calories [...]


Last weekend I participated in the inaugural “Druid Challenge” ultramarathon, along the Ridgeway, a beautiful, tough trail, just to the northwest of London.  I did it because: (a) I wanted to get motivated to do some long-distance running as I train to tackle my first Ironman this year (b) I wanted do a small event [...]


Wouldn’t it be great if all our runs were like this? Of course, you know that some of that static stretching he does at the beginning of the clip isn’t really “correct”. Warm up with some dynamic movements before the run, then cool down with more static stretching after the run. Sorry, just had to [...]