Don’t try this at home, boys and girls.

We all know about music for running, and the importance of a good soundtrack to allay the soul-crushing boredom – I know a few people won’t even go to the gym if their iPod is out of battery… but swimming to music? Now there’s a whole new kettle of fish.

They’re not easy to find… the stables are hidden on a dead-end street filled with car mechanics, and the tall concrete walls that line the paddock have been a prized spot for graffiti writers since the days when Mode 2 and Futura used to bomb there. In fact, the only thing that might alert an unsuspecting visitor is the overriding smell of horse dung that lingers in the air.

Love running? Love Rock and Roll? Love… The American Gladiators? One of the newest players in obstacle/adventure racing in Southern California comes with an interesting twist: being produced by one of the stars of the American Gladiators series.

Either swimming’s coming back in a big way, or I just happen to be attracted to people with broad shoulders and a faint whiff of chlorine.

“I have decided that it’s time to hunker down and get serious about training. I need to work on my inner FAST, be focused and dedicated”

LONDON. On Southbank, which has been home to skateboarders for some 20 years, Parkour practitioners are using the stark brutalist architecture to perfect their flips and jumps and rolls, and draw the gaze of the passing traffic.9

The K-Swiss/Kinfolk collaboration extends from a curated series of images that capture the classic Cali sports lifestyle to an edited, limited-edition collection of gear. Ten handcrafted bags and fifty hand-dyed indigo scarves: proof that when it comes to sports and innovative design, California and Japan make for good kinfolk, indeed…

Looking to gear up for some soundtracks to your run? Here are two must-have products for Fall/Winter Marathon season…
4th Generation iPod Shuffle
Some big news in sports technology hit this week when Steve Jobs announced that the next generation iPod Shuffle will be going retro (re-instating buttons). Buttons?! Yes! Anyone who has ever tried running with [...]

It’s that time again Southern California! Be you a Roadrunner, LA Legger, Coyote or otherwise… Los Angeles Marathon training has officially started.

Bike shops have been cropping up all over London– almost in inverse proportion to petrol (aka gas) stations which all but disappeared from the city center in the past few years. The sign that the bike phenomenon is well and truly part of the zeitgeist is when you start seeing non-bike activities catering exclusively (or sorta exclusively) to the pedal-phile.

The romance of Sunday league football is the subject of Reality Football by photographer, Alan Powdrill. A real labor of love, it has taken him three years to complete. The images are a reminder that the Beautiful Game isn’t about 7-figure salaries, it’s about grit and determination and that unexplainable buzz you get from kicking a football about, and getting covered in mud.

Like all relationships, it’s important to tend to the one you have with running and approach it with vigor. That is to say, if things are starting to fall flat… spice it up! Here are a few suggestions and things I have tried or heard about that help keep things interesting out on the road.

For those in Los Angeles County who many not be able to trek towards the beach without hitting the freeway and are not within arm’s reach of a National Forest, there is always urban trail running along the Los Angeles River and my most recent discovery, Rio Hondo, an tributary of the Los Angeles River.

Training for your first 5k, half marathon, full marathon or otherwise? Every runner has his or her own pace, weekly mileage, that eventually develops over time and trial and error (especially if you are me). For those of you who are relatively new to running or are an on and off again casual runner looking for a more structured plan for an upcoming race… here are some good (free) online training tools to help get you started.

To help remind everyone what to be aware of while on the road, I looked up common safety rules in various running situations I thought would be helpful to share… Here are six rules that stood out to me as absolute musts.

If you’ve ever lived in what is now the hipster enclave that is Silverlake, or even taken a late afternoon drive around the reservoir you’ve probably seen a shirtless, overly tanned middle-aged man walking… very quickly.

If you are tired of using the same run of the mill ways of finding running routes around your neighborhood, several new tried and true routes are as easy to find as clicking through a popular social media outlet. Here are a few high traffic sites (which are non-running and sports specific) that you may have left untapped.

If you are in the middle of training for your first half marathon, marathon, or what have you, be warned of five of these overtraining signs before you find yourself a trampled, injured, frustrated or benched runner due to OTS (OverTraining Syndrome – yup, there’s even an official term with acronym for it!)

Excited to run the Malibu Marathon?! I know I am! I recently received notice of a cool new offering the organizers of the race have up and coming this month: a first in a series of small training clinics that swear to have you “love running again.”