Have you ever packed your bags and arrived at the gym only to find you forgot something? I have found myself in this interesting predicament a few times. Usually it’s been a forgotten water bottle or lock for a gym locker. However, one time the item I forgot was pretty important – my shoes. On this […]

It’s coming up on a year now since I ran my last race. While I’m still not ready to jump back into heavy training, or to run a half-marathon again, I recently got the itch to run again. To be frank, I haven’t run in weeks (months?). The spring-like weather this week is truly pushing […]

Several Orange Theory Fitness locations popped up in the greater Cleveland area over the last several years. It was on my to do list to try an Orange Theory Fitness workout and I finally got around to doing so. Orange Theory workouts are a little mysterious and the process to sign up and actually take […]

When I first started running regularly I used to frequently get a painful pinch on the side part of my torso, around my mid-section, below my rib cage. The pinching quickly brought me back to high school gym class and the pinch I would feel in my diaphragm after being prompted to run a one-mile […]

I have a bit of a confession. I ran for two years before I purchased a proper running jacket. More than once during that time I resorted to wearing a 10-year-old hooded windbreaker from GAP as my “running jacket.” It was time I went about selecting a running jacket. As the researcher that I am, […]