Avoid Pre-Race Dehydration
Hacks for staying hydrated during pre-race travel Did you know that even a two-percent drop in body weight due to dehydration diminishes athletic performance? Tip the scales with a five-percent body-weight loss due to dehydration, and you’re looking at a decreased athletic c…
Read More ›The Happy Runner's Guide to Injury Prevention
5 ways to run healthy, strong and injury free Sooner or later, if you run long enough, you’re going to get injured. It just comes with the territory. But that’s OK. And everyone has a different level of injury proneness based on a whole slew of ingredients including li…
Read More ›Five Reasons to Run With Your Dog
When professional trail ultrarunner Krissy Moehl came home with her adventure dog, Piedra, it was after 10 years of careful consideration, regular world traveling and a whirlwind of moving from place to place. In short, it was not a life conducive to raising a pup. So, when she moved bac…
Read More ›When Should You Replace a Sports Bra?
Do You Know When to Replace Your Sports Bras? You know how to choose running shoes based on your foot shape and running habits, and you know exactly how long those shoes will last. But when is the last time you thought about replacing your sports bras? New bras will give you the be…
Read More ›8 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Running
What to do when your running regiment needs a recharge We all know that running can be fun, running can be invigorating and, yes, sometimes, running can also be a burden. For a number of reasons, it can be hard to stay fit, focused and full of energy about your running all the tim…
Read More ›Can Social Media Make You a Faster Runner?
The truth about training in the digital age Antoine Fitzgerald is like many of us. He doesn’t like running in the heat. He hates sliding around in the snow. On days where the 35-year-old accountant has to make a four-hour round-trip commute from his home in Virginia to his o…
Read More ›The Rules of Running Etiquette You Need to Know
Everything you need to know to follow running's unspoken rules Running isn’t always as easy as right foot, left foot. There are unsaid rules you’re expected to follow. And even experienced runners don’t know (or follow) them all. So, to make it easy, we put toget…
Read More ›Race Faster by Training Slower
A fresh perspective on the value of recovery and cumulative adaptation for endurance sports The notion of training slower to race faster is counterintuitive on the surface. How can we possibly be capable of running marathon pace for several hours come race day if we do not frequen…
Read More ›Beyond the Shoes
The running essentials you never knew you needed When you walk into Fleet Feet, you often weave through the many racks of “other stuff” to get to the shoes. But what you might not know is all of the "other stuff" you’re dodging can be just as important. Here̵…
Read More ›A Brief History of Fleet Feet
Let's go It was 1972, and American Frank Shorter crossed the finish line of the 1972 Olympics in first place. It was a victory that propelled his professional running career to new heights while simultaneously spurring a running boom that would sweep across the US over the next tw…
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