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Winter is upon us. Fortunately, we don’t get much snow at all in Portland (but this is Run Oregon, not Run Portland, so perhaps you are inundated with the white stuff). Even without snow, though, it can get frigid and wet. And rain all the time. Some runners are hardy enough to deal with adverse conditions outside. I am not one of those. I’ll put up with cold and rain for a race, like the 2014 Fort…
Run Oregon sometimes receives products to review. Given the wet running weather here in Oregon, we were sent and asked to review the Nautilus T616 Treadmill. Here are our impressions: I swore I would never get a treadmill, despite our writer Tung’s great blog and insistence that running on a treadmill isn’t all that bad. I mean I hail from Oregon, the land of a million running routes no matter what corner of the state you happen to be in.…
If you’re into running souvenirs and had $77,000 to spare…: then you could have bought the shoes that Roger Bannister wore when he became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes. Of course, if I wore those shoes and ran a mile, I’d finish in, well, it wouldn’t be under 4 minutes. (But I wonder what Brian Bernier could run in them …. Hmm, maybe we should start a GoFundMe drive…
* The problem: You are stuck at the airport (like, say, Chicago O’Hare) with some hours-long delay. ARGH. If only you could running. Laps inside the airport terminal are a possibility, but (1) it’s not clear that TSA wouldn’t frown upon that; and (2) you have to lug your stuff. If only more airports had their own gyms (ironically, O’Hare is one of them). Airport Gyms tries to remedy that problem by listing gyms nearby most major…
* Do you ever go running on the track but find that the inside lane is blocked because of walkers, lane barriers, or other obstacles, and then end up wondering how much extra distance the middle lane added to your run? Wonder no more; just head over to this website, plug in the relevant numbers, and get your answer.
* Here’s a new cross-training idea: shivering in the cold. Okay, it’s doubtful that shivering is as effective at building up cardiovascular endurance as running is, but apparently it does stimulate the conversion of (mostly) useless white body fat into (much more) useful brown body fat. Brown body fat is “a tissue that is metabolically quite active. Unlike white fat, it burns calories and generates heat.” So I guess this means if it’s too icy/snowy/frigid…
