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The Indy Monumental Half Marathon: Half as hard, Twice as Painful

November 9, 2010 By Joel Runyon 42 Comments

The Race I woke up at 4:30am the day of and got down to Indy. It had snowed Friday night and Saturday morning was not warm. I tried to warm up by jogging around, but my knee was sore the whole time and I could barely eek out a jog. How am I gonna run a half-marathon with this? I hate drugs, but I downed a few [more] ibuprofen to try and dull the pain in my knee and kept stretching as we waited for the starting line to start to fill up. I wasn't seeded ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, The Impossible Tagged With: Busted Knees, Fast Kenyans, Indy Marathon, Indy Monumental Marathon, Vibrams

The #1 Thing I Learned From 2nd Place In My First 10K

October 5, 2010 By Joel Runyon 24 Comments

Saturday morning I headed out at 4:45am. Unfortunately, due to equal parts bad navigation and poor marked signage, the short 1-hour drive turned into 2 1/2 as I turned myself around at least a dozen times. After some out-loud yelling at my car, I finally figured everything out and showed up to the race. The Race The main race going on for the weekend was a duathon [10k run, 40k bike, then another 10k run] and there were a few hundred people there ...

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Filed Under: Adventures, Fitness, Hacks, The Impossible Tagged With: American Health Network 10K, Barefoot Running, Muncie 10K, Muncie Powerman, Vibrams, Vibrams 5 Fingers

Vibrams Five Fingers Review Part 2

June 25, 2010 By Joel Runyon 14 Comments

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This is the 2nd of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the first part of the review here. *** In my last review, I touched on a bunch of the things I really like about my VFFs. In this second part of the review, I'm touching on some of the things I wasn't so happy with. Once again, for those of you wanting to skip around, here are some of the highlights of the video: [-0:17] - ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks Tagged With: Biking, Blisters, Cycling, REI, VFF, Vibrams, Vibrams Five Fingers, Video Review

Vibrams Five Fingers Review Part 1

June 15, 2010 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

This is 1st part of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the second part of the review here. *** photo credit: Richard Monteverde A few weeks back I took a plunge and got a pair of Vibrams Five Finger running shoes. After using them for a few weeks, I finally feel like I've run enough in them to give a review of my experiences with them so I decided I might as well make it a video ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks Tagged With: Barefoot Running, Minimalism, Review, Running, VFF, Vibrams, Vibrams Five Fingers

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