Slaney still yearns to run – Yahoo! News.
Nice article on Mary Slaney.  Refreshing change to hear an athlete talk in honest terms about themselves and their sport and the reality of being forced to retire due to injury.

It’s coming… | The Running Front
Looks like Newton Running is addressing the one functional thing I didn’t like about my current pair of Newts:  they aren’t very trail/off-road friendly.  Now it looks like they will have a shoe that will perform better in those conditions.
By the way, despite the trail issue, I’m about to order [...]

Drugs hit Tour again; Italy’s Ricco ousted – Yahoo! News
“that the sport is being cleaned up in serious, fair and transparent way. Our sport is being crucified for doing the right thing.”
I couldn’t agree more.  Over here, we pamper our favorite druggies by giving them slaps on the wrist and bigger contracts, all while they [...]

I have put about 50-60 miles on my “Newts” now, and am still pretty happy with them.  I have run pretty much all training distances (at least for me) with them on, including 6+ miles, interval runs, tempo runs and all out sprints. My original posts are still pretty much how I feel, but I [...]

I have committed myself to a race this year, my first one in over a year and have gotten back into a pretty good training routine (nothing formal just yet) and have switched back to working out around lunchtime again.  Before that, I usually worked out right after taking my son to the bus stop.  [...]

I have put about 15 miles on my new Newton Running shoes and there are a couple of things I can add to my first impressions and my first post on the topic.
First off, the shoes are still damn ugly, but in a beautiful damn ugly way. My wife has vowed to never [...]