Tag: running shoes
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Single Use Shoes?! This Must be an Onion Headline!
Maybe you’ve heard the term “super shoes.” Maybe you’ve even heard about the new Adidas super shoe that just helped break the women’s world record in the marathon. The shoe has been getting a lot of press recently including a New York Times article this past weekend and a CBC interview on As It Happens
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How Long Should My Running Shoes Last?
I’m afraid of running injuries. In my teens and 20s, I spent too much time getting PT and not enough time putting in the miles. So when a shoe brand tells me to replace my shoes every few hundred miles (often 300-400 miles with Strava defaulting to a reminder at 250 miles), I’m inclined to
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This Shoe is Made from Recycled Bottles! But is that Really a Good Thing?
This shoe is made from recycled bottles! We see claims like this all the time on plastic clothes and shoes (yes, our clothes and shoes are made of plastic), but what does it mean? Does it really make our clothing better for the planet? Or is it just greenwashing? The Brooks Ghost 15 claims to
The Green Ostrich 