Taking steps to prevent chafing sounds kind of silly if it's something you've never had to do. Once it happens though, it's a concern that you want to address as quickly and effectively as possible. The repetitive motion in running coupled with any kind of abrasion, no matter how slight, can add up to be highly uncomfortable. For the most part, I didn't have too much trouble with this until I started getting up above the 8-10 mile ranges, but the threshold is different for

For months, I had a clear goal in mind for what I wanted to do with running: I was training for a half marathon. It was pretty cut and dry in terms of preparation and training since you can find countless resources online to help build a training schedule and get ready for such a race. After being on a pretty tight training regime for a while, I felt like taking a few weeks to run as I felt like once I completed my goal in the race. In July, I have The Bear run coming up so

I have a beard. I've had a beard for around ten years now and I feel pretty strongly that it does not, nor has it ever, contained fecal matter. There have been several articles flying around the internet lately touting this myth based on some loose testing. In terms of what I read, there was no mention of how they constructed their sample population or any indication that the study was carefully done. They may have just walked outside, found a group of 20 nasty looking dud

April was a pretty big running month for me. I accomplished one of my big three running goals that I set out last year when I ran my first half marathon and made my time goal of finishing in under 2 hours. I also got some interesting stats from Runkeeper - the run tracking app I use that I would highly recommend. The app sent me an email about midway through May that I had logged 500 miles running while using the app. That mileage is spread across about a year so it breaks