Last night, I registered for the Thanksgiving half marathon in Atlanta and after a gut wrenching $90 transaction, I was left asking, what in the hell am I doing? Why am I PAYING almost $100 to go run in the street? Ninety dollars can do a lot of things. It could be a really nice dinner, several trips to the movies, a couple tanks of gas, three older video games, or 18 DVDs if you hit Wal-Mart at the right time. That amount of money can do a lot of things and thinking about

As circumstance would have it, another instance of intersection between my passions for running and drumming emerged recently when Runkeeper rolled out their new feature for shoe tracking. I've written about the expendability of drum accessories as well as some testimony supporting changing those expendables out in a timely fashion, like drum heads. With this new feature from the run tracking app, the guesswork is no longer a factor when it comes to replacing the most import

I'm not generally a fan of running with music. Running with podcasts is my go-to since it allows me to keep my pace totally separate from what I'm listening to while still keeping me engaged with something else (if you are looking for a recommendation for a podcast to try while running, I can't suggest Hardcore History strongly enough). Occasionally though, I will feel compelled to crank some tunes to get motivated for my runs and I've been doing so more lately as I feel st