the riddle of the mystery pair of trail running shoes that we presented last week seems to be lifted. the friendly folks at asics of whom tom@asics is one replied by email and wrote the following.
Thank you for your email. I believe the shoes you have just purchased are the same as the ASICS GEL [...]
just bought a new pair of running shoes for the winter. the local budget sport outlet had a number of winter and off-road running shoes on sale. although a pair of nike were about half the price of the asics I ended up buying, I don’t regret the decision. inexpensive nike shoes have th [...]
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last sunday was father’s day in finland. unlike mother’s day which is pretty much harmonized across countries on the second sunday of may (except for the uk), father’s day is all over the calendar. in central europe e.g. it’s in june, in the us, japan, canada and the uk as well, australia and new zealand [...]
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day 60, came back from a 20k run last week and the evenings are becoming chilly (5°C) at 61degrees north (helsinki). wanted to hit the stop button for the sports track timer, but it’s not as a direct option, so you have to go through the menu. it gets really tricky [...]
nokia came out with this neat little application called sports tracker a while ago, sometime in the fall of 2007, I guess. in a nut shell, it tracks the route of your run, attches media files to that run if you’ve taken pictures, videos, or or other masochistic evidence while out there and let’s you [...]
the nokia n85 was just released and we wanted to find out how well it works as a running companion. with the sports tracker application installed it records the route you run and you can upload each training session to the sports tracker service on the web where you find the route displayed on a [...]
as introduced on the weekend, the Griffin armband fits to the majority of mobile devices. the narrower the better since getting them in or out while running is easier if the device is a bit narrower. with the majority of well-designed music devices having the head phones jack at the top, that one is also [...]
