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Article submitted by Ms. Sara Martinez
About two months ago, I would have purchased my 8th pair of high-end running shoes. These are comfortable shoes with great fit and impact protection. The stability on this shoe to support my foot from chances of pronation is locksafe. There is a martyred gel in its sole to take the abuse of my heelstrike shock away from joints and spine. The off-center lacing is heralded as innovative in promoting a safe transfer of energy and wrapping around the top of the foot. This shoe is a marvel of technology spawned from brilliant minds and millions of research dollars towards engineering. They had served me well, and I credit thousands of miles (and around a thousand dollars) to them. But, about two months ago, I bought a certain book about running and people who run well on low-tech. I had never questioned why it took such feats of technology to help me…put one foot in front of the other? It broadened my perspectives, asked basic questions, invited me to do my own fact-finding, and take an $85 risk and investment. It’s been great, and I’ve never run better.
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Back in 2006 before I created LogYourRun I was training for the Saint Louis half marathon and using an excel spreadsheet that I got from one of my friends to keep track of my mileage and running times. The spreadsheet worked great but I quickly found that when training it is also very useful to keep track of pains and aches so you can correlate pain with the amount of effort put in. I also found that I often wanted to enter my data when I was not near the computer that had my spreadsheet on it.
So I created a very simple online running log to keep track of my mileage, time, and injuries. This way I could see my data from any computer and I could visualize the data any way I wanted. Since 2006 I have continuously been adding new features to LogYourRun, largely based on great suggestions that have come from the users of the site.
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Pedometer running watch with lots of great features.
I recently got my hands on one of the Tech4O Trail Leader 1 running watches and I have been very impressed with the features. The watch has a built in accelerometer which allows you to measure your running and walking distance once you have calculated your average stride distance (easily done at the Tech4O website). In my tests, once calibrated, the watch was accurate to within 10% on my runs. The accuracy was greatly increased (within 2%) if I used the watch on the treadmill and kept my pace at the exact same pace as what I used when I calibrated the watch. I think this is due to the fact that as my pace changes so does my stride length.
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Looks like Garmin figured out how to pack a full GPS unit into a regular sized watch. Check out the video review at Amazon.
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