Whether you use them as fuel during exercise or as a snack between meals, energy bars are often found in a runner’s cupboard, bag or car. Recently, Honey Stinger sent me some energy bars to review. Read the results of my taste test inside.

Honey Stinger gels are put to the test. How did they pan out? What are your favorite gels?

Sportique’s Get Going Cream is put to the test. How did it pan out?

I have been testing out the OrthoLite Fusion insole for the past month and wanted to share my thoughts about these performance insoles with you. The first thing I did was take my old insoles out of my shoes and compare them side-by-side with the Ortholite insoles. I run in the New Balance 769 model and the insoles which came in these shoes have stood up pretty well to the 390 miles which I had run in them. (I put 23 additional miles on my shoes wearing the OrthoLite insoles.)
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Who needs sweaty feet in the summer? My eternal search for the thinnest, most comfortable socks for summer running continues.

Three different review by three different people who were given Sof Sole insoles to test and review. Two of the testers wore the same product and the third person wore a different product. Interesting insights and opinions on their very different experiences.

I was sent some Sof Sole socks and insoles in April to test out and review. Sof Sole is owned by parent company Implus Footcare, the company which also owns and manufactures Yaktrax. The socks which I received were the Coolmax Trainer Socks, part of the Coolmax Sock Series. From what I can tell on the Sof Sole website, there are three socks in this particular series: the Coolmax Lite, Coolmax Runner and Coolmax Trainer. The Coolmax Trainer is the thickest and most cushioned of the three.
When testing new socks …

One of the very first purchases I made as a wide-eyed, budding runner back in the spring of 2007 was my very first running watch, a Timex Ironman Sleek 50-Lap model which I picked up for around $50 at Target. What lead me to this purchase was a need to know how long and how far I was running. I would run my loops at Lehigh Parkway, time myself using my spiffy, new watch and then go home and map out the route I had just run on mapmyrun.com. This …