Category: Product Reviews
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I’ve always had an on-again-off-again relationship with Mizuno. I ran my first marathon in a pair of Renegade 4 (2009). Five years later I went Mizuno-crazy looking for a fresh running start after bilateral inguinal hernia repair. I fell in love with the Precision 13. They had a Robin’s egg blue and Canary color…
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It’s an endless pursuit for the runner. A search that never seems to end. Like the peak of an endless climb, the search for a rain shell that repeals the rain, weighs little, and doesn’t produce sauna conditions when worn seems endless. Oh, and doesn’t cost 200 dollars. Does such a jacket exist? Like the…
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Brooks has had a foot in the trail running scene for quite some time with its flagship trail shoe the Cascadia, now in its 11th iteration. Along with the Puregrit series, the Adrenaline ASR and the newer Mazama lightweight trail racing shoe, brooks is showing an increased devotion to the trail. Now they’re producing trail-specific…
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[See My view of the Launch 2 here] For a shoe that was on the cutting line a couple of years ago, the Brooks Launch has enjoyed quite a resurgence. The Launch 2 updated the shoe with the most recent Brooks shoe technology. The Launch 3 offers little revision from the second version of…
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I can’t remember when Brooks came out with an entirely new shoe model since before the Pure Project series. That’s the kind of cool thing about Brooks, they don’t go chasing the newest fad just because everyone else is doing it. Case in point: Brooks hasn’t yet joined the max cushion movement, especially in trail…
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There was a period about two years ago, when iPad was booming and everyone had to have one, where I decided I’d go all in on the digital lifestyle. I’d leave pen and paper behind and have all my notes and information at my fingertips. That worked for a while, but I soon found that…
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Yes, I know NB has released an update to this shoe (the Hierro), and any good reviewer wouldn’t publish a review of an “outdated” shoe. But I love this trail shoe. The love needs to be shared When I first started running trails, and given that I was a Brooks man through and through, I…
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This is one of several reviews that I have been meaning to write since this summer. It has been a crazy busy summer and fall for me and I’ve also published an academic book (my day job is professor of history and department chair) and reading galley proofs, securing photo rights, and taking care of…
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A couple of months ago CEP asked me if I’d like to sample a pair of their compression socks. Not the full-length socks, mind you, but those made just for feet. Yes, just for feet. Too many runners, asserts CEP, runners assume that compression is primarily for the calves. Sure CEP sells those, too, but…
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[Don’t forget, if you haven’t already, please “like” the blog’s Facebook page found here] A few weeks ago I received an email from Steve Saepan of Tiux Premium Performance Compression Socks. I’m a sucker for a good compression sock or sleeve so I agreed to review a pair. Not HIS socks, mind you. That would be…
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(If you haven’t already, please “like” the blog’s Facebook page.) If you’ve ever run in the Brooks Launch and liked it, then you get it. And you know the lore of the Launch. The Brooks Launch was introduced in Fall 2009 to pretty great reviews. Pete Larson at Runblogger loved it and made it…
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