Switzerland-based On AG puts shock absorbers on its line of running shoes. The rubber circles, called “clouds,” act as tread but also flex and cave in to absorb shock on each stride. We gave the shoes a month-long test.
In September, our contributing editor, Sean McCoy, took 5th place overall in the inaugural Patagonian International Marathon. He reported live from Chile for a week to race and cover the event. This is his story on the race.
Gannett Peak in Wyoming takes fully-equipped hikers three days to climb and descend. Ultra-runner Anton Krupicka recently conquered the peak in under 9 hours with no gear and not even a pack on his back.
Magellan has long been a main player in GPS devices made for the outdoors. This year, the company is jumping into the world of fitness.
“Low, light and fast.” Salomon picked those adjectives to describe its S-Lab Sense, a racing shoe new this year that is the most minimal in the company’s line. Our writer put them to the test on the tough Patagonian International Marathon last month.
Our contributing editor Sean McCoy ran a 3:18 marathon on a tough course through Torres del Paine national park in Chile to net a 5th-place overall finish in the debut Patagonian International Marathon this past weekend. Here’s a quick update from the field.
Our editor Sean McCoy is in Chile this month to cover and race in the inaugural Patagonian International Marathon. Here is his first report from the field, a warmup day with jogging on the beach and some local fun.
Keep the Forrest Gump jokes to yourself. Doug Masiuk has heard them all before. This year he’s running across the country to raise awareness for physical fitness and type-one diabetes, a condition he’s managed since he was three years old.
Climbing-oriented footwear brand Scarpa has leaped into trail running. We test the Spark, a shoe our reviewer says “shines in places where hiking boots are too much but ‘barefoot-style’ shoes too light.”
The GearJunkie office is hooked on this six-minute video, which follows an elite ultra-runner, Ryan Sandes, as he takes on the treacherous 84KM Fish River Canyon in Namibia.
Patagonia is one of the most rugged regions on Earth. The wilderness will provide a dramatic backdrop for the Patagonian International Marathon, a race next month that our editor will run in and cover live.
Haiti’s first ultra-marathon, held last winter, took runners from the collapsed presidential palace in downtown Port-au-Prince to the unspoiled beach on the country’s southern coast. This February the charity-minded organizers hope to attract a couple dozen runners to do it again.
Six days and 120 miles of rugged trails at the GORE-TEX TransRockies Run was a perfect testing ground for GearJunkie editor Sean McCoy. Here he reports back from the experience and the gear that helped him succeed along the way.
Running 120 miles over six days, our contributing editor Sean McCoy finished 12th place with teammate Leon Lutz in last week’s GORE-TEX TransRockies Run. Here are a few tips he learned along the way.
More than 350 racers — including a GearJunkie editor, Sean McCoy — start the 120-mile GORE-TEX TransRockies race today. Here’s a peek from the start line and a look at a few pieces of gear our editor will use along the way.
It holds water. It holds your phone. A strap cinches it on your hand, allowing for a hydrated, technology-embellished training run where you can use smartphone GPS tracking features and never again miss a call.
Says our correspondent, “In a former life, I was a runner. Then the Caribbean happened.” After a decade hiatus from the sport while living on an island, our writer jumps fully back into running, and he’s testing a few “exotic” shoes along the way. . .
A 45-kilometer route through the Pyrenees Mountains of southern France was the venue for an ultra race last weekend, the “Kilian’s Classik.” A GearJunkie editor laced up to run the course, which “tunneled through trees and climbed high peaks” along its tough route.
With his sights set on winning the 100-mile Ultra Trail Mount Fuji race, runner Adam Campbell worked to create an ultimate lineup of gear to move fast on the event’s tough trail. Arc’teryx, Salomon, and Coca-Cola were included in the kit.
This week GearJunkie’s editor takes off for Europe and the annual Kilian’s Classik Passion, an ultra trail run race through the Pyrenees mountain range in southern France.
Beefy and padded but still ultra-light? That’s the premise put out by Tecnica with its new Inferno X-LITE trail-running shoe.
Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers was one of the few teams to complete the full, 4-day-long wilderness course last week during the tough Untamed New England Adventure Race. Racer Chelsey Magness reports on the experience from the deep woods of northern Maine.
Last weekend, on a crisp summer morning, more than 6,000 runners toed a start line at the Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon, an annual event that tracks 13+ miles along the shore of Lake Superior. Team GearJunkie racer Kelly Brinkman was assessing the field, planning to make a move for the overall win.
The unlikely footwear phenomenon rages on! Vibram FiveFingers this week announced a new “foot glove” model to debut this fall that’s advertised as a “stylish streetwear cross trainer,” whatever that exactly means.
In iron-red mountains over Sedona, GearJunkie’s editor joined a group to run for a few hours in search of vortexes and good views. A first-look test of new apparel from Columbia and Mountain Hardwear was on the docket, too.
This past weekend, a GearJunkie writer tackled Colorado’s Vail Pass Half Marathon, a 13.7-mile footrace that climbs to an alpine finish line at an altitude above 10,000 feet.
In a lineup of minimal shoes, the Vertical Ks from La Sportiva are unique. They offer a flexible, lightweight build plus a low heel-to-toe drop spec. But the cushy shoe has more protection underfoot than true “barefoot” stock.
Our Denver-based contributor, Sean McCoy, signs on the dotted line to commit to the GORE-TEX TransRockies Run, a six-day stage race this August in Colorado that covers 120 miles and about 20,000 vertical feet of elevation gain along its killer course.
A retro look and a deliberately under-engineered design set Altra Running’s Lone Peak shoes apart. We give the zero-drop running shoes a trail test.
Vibram adds tread to sole and a rock guard to protect on FiveFingers shoe, markets the result to trail runners. We give it a test this spring on hardpack, mud and loose dirt.
A minimal athletic shoe made with goat leather? A $195 price tag? Yep, meet Skora Inc. of Portland, Ore., a startup looking to build a better, different type of running shoe.
No, thanks.
