With racing season upon us and Father’s Day around the corner, it’s time to get geared up to race. Sure, you could go to some big box retailer at a mall, but if you do that you’ll succeed only in getting the same running top every other dude will be wearing. Besides, the stuff they […]

We’ve been in the journalism game since 1990, and we’ve been a running since childhood.  So we’ve seen enough new “technology” in running shoes that whenever someone comes out with a new shoe with wild claims about it, we pretty much assume that it’s worthless and we’re  not even willing to give it a second […]

Researchers at the University of Portsmouth in England have published a new study that will contain few surprises to women who run:  Your boobs hurt.  In fact, they hurt too often. The study asked 1,300 women about to run in the 2012 London Marathon about their breast pain and to what extent it affected how […]

You have less than two weeks to find something your mother will appreciate that doesn’t scream, “I totally forgot again this year, mom.” If your mom is a runner and you don’t have gobs of cash to burn, here are five options to consider below. You can thank us later. On our birthday. First, moms […]

In the wake of the attacks at the Boston Marathon, The Runner’s Vibe wants to provide an outlet for people to show their support for the victims and their solidarity with all runners. To that end, The Runner’s Vibe requests that if you would like, email TheVibe@TheRunnersVibe.com with a photo and perhaps a short comment […]

If you’re an Amazon shopper, you might have received an email with the offer, but there’s no harm in spreading the news.  Amazon is offering $20 off $100 on “select” running shoes.  They are only the ones sold by Amazon.com, not necessarily a reseller. Here’s a link to the women’s select shoes.  And here’s a […]

If the thought of polyester knits conjures in your mind images of a 1970′s leisure suits, you probably aren’t a running shoe designer at Nike. Nike has taken polyester knit and used it to create a one-piece upper for its new Flyknit Lunar 1+.  And while the midsole is stiffer than Larry Laffer at a […]

If you’re looking for a way to nudge yourself to change fitness habits, but you don’t want to spend a lot of money, there is a new, free, iPhone app to help. It’s called, simply, “Moves.”  It’s designed to automatically detect the physical activity you do every day and map it out for you so […]

New Balance has suddenly, and without fanfare, thrust itself at the front of technological innovation in running footwear and may have found a way to reduce the cost of manufacturing running shoes in the U.S. The Boston-based company is the first running shoe manufacturer to slap a custom shoe on an elite athlete that had […]

A lot of amateur road racers get a pick-me-up from gulping down an energy drink prior to a race. But today (March 19), 18 doctors, researchers and public health experts asked Congress to force the makers of energy drinks to restrict the amount of caffeine in them and to print how much caffeine they contain […]