paulradcliffe.me archive
Tag: General Running and/or Fitness
August 15, 2011
Saucony ProGrid (Lite) Kinvara Review
I owe one of my loyal readers a review of the famous Saucony ProGrid Lite Kinvaras. After putting about 50km on these shoes and running a race, I feel confident to give them a fair review. Lately, the running community has been gripped in deep discussion about the notion of barefoot and minimalist running. There are compelling and interesting debates about the very philosophy and economics that surround ‘traditional’ running shoes. I’m particularly interested in the evolutionary and physiological arguments about running barefoot. There’s a particularly interesting study from Harvard that acts as a good primer to this debate.[…continue reading]
August 1, 2011
Highland Yard 10k Race Report
On Friday, July 29, I ran the Highland Yard 10k in Minden, Ontario. This race is a little sentimental to me because my first race was the Highland Yard 5k one year earlier, which runs concurrently with the 10k. I was pretty worried about this race because it was my first race since the Bread & Honey 15k which was almost months ago. In those two months I had a surgery, tool a couple of weeks off and started a new training cycle from scratch. I’m also not doing cross training so I feel like I’m not in prime form[…continue reading]
July 21, 2011
Inspiration/Perspiration
I had an interesting experience running a little 7k last night. It was 34 degrees Celsius at 7pm! And it felt like 41ºC with the humidex. It almost felt like running through something thick. Someone once told me that the sweat on your shirt is a measure of the effort when running. For example, if the sweat stain under your neck is 4 inches down means you worked harder than a person who had a sweat stain that only went 2 inches down. When I finished the run, I didn’t see a sweat ring under my neck. Instead, my whole[…continue reading]
