So what music do you listen at when running? DJ Steveboy has come up with podcast named Podrunner with tons of energetic music to keep you motivated while you run. What surprises me is that each song has a BPM "speed". The fastests at this time of writing are "Groundpounder" and "Jackhammer", at 180 BPM.
There’s […]

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I’ve seen an explosion of Nike + iPod sensor holders lately.
Podophile has some posts about them:

A roundup with various do-it-yourself solutions as well as some commercial holders. Read the comments also.
The Chip-Clip (picture on the right).
Another DIY type (see this Flickr photo).

Buy the Nike + iPod Sport Kit at Amazon.

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Jenna Sumara at The Final Sprint offers some good advice in her article Beginner’s guide to running apparel. She touches the basic points a runner (especially a beginner) should consider when buying shoes and clothes.
Being a runner myself and having suffered some of the errors she tells you to avoid I must agree with her […]

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I’ve found this review of the Nike Free 5.0 written by David from Urban Semiotic. In his own words:
"The whole idea behind the “Free 5.0″ Nike’s is that, even though you are wearing shoes, it feels like you are going barefoot. Nike pulls off that idea in a grand and incredible way.[…] I was […]

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Gary Valle at Photography On the Run has written an interesting post comparing these two Forerunners. What’s interesting about it is that he’s done the same route with both devices and he shows a Google Earth photo with the two GPS traces overlapped.

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