Changes are coming to your Apple Watch, and they’re made with outdoor athletes in mind. At the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 5, Apple unveiled its plans for watchOS 10, the most comprehensive update to the watch since its introduction in 2015. In addition to adding Smart Stack widgets, new designs, and even a face […]

In our new monthly column in partnership with Strava, we take a deep dive into compelling data points that reveal the more human side of sport.  While no runner who finishes the Western States Endurance Run (WSER) is “average,” we can learn something about effective training from finishers. Data scientists at Strava compiled data from […]

Researchers at Tulane University tested 60 popular beverages for toxic metals and found that five drinks contained amounts above the federal drinking water standards. While the results sound jarring, how concerned should we really be about metals in our store-bought beverages? The study, published in the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, revealed that an […]

It’s not uncommon for running brands to look into new ways of changing the game in who they choose to support. Saucony is no exception, having announced its first-ever name, image, likeness (NIL) program last month, which coincidentally was National Nurses Month. This new program is exclusively for nursing students, in partnership with Galen College […]

At some point in every runner’s career, they stop improving. Their race performances begin to stagnate, and it becomes more difficult to set a new personal record (PR). These performance plateaus are common. They often happen after three to four races without improvement, despite great training. While all indications point to improvement, it simply doesn’t […]

One of the notable topics that popped up at the American College of Sports Medicine conference earlier this month was muscle oxygen monitoring. (For more from the ACSM conference, see my previous updates on supershoes and sports psychology.) I wrote an article last year on muscle oxygen sensors, wondering if they would turn out be […]

Trust me: Being injured keeps you busy. There are countless doctors’ appointments, physical therapy exercises, and cross training programs. Add meditation and visualization sessions to that list. When I recently hurt my hip and couldn’t run for three months, physicians repeatedly urged me to integrate these mindful practices into my recovery, suggesting it would help […]

Rod Farvard’s mustache might be my favorite in all of running. It’s neither thick nor groomed, neither oiled nor manicured. It’s messy. It’s patchy. It curls at the ends. I think I caught him snacking on his own facial hair the day his whole body began snacking on itself at the highest point in Thailand, […]

At Outside, we write about running. A lot. We’ve spent countless hours talking to the greatest athletes and brightest minds in the sport to examine every training and racing strategy imaginable. We’ve even tested many of those approaches ourselves. While we think it’s all worthwhile info, we recognize that sometimes keeping it simple is best. […]

The American College of Sports Medicine’s annual mega-conference, which was held earlier this month in Denver, is a great chance to see what questions sports scientists are currently preoccupied with. I rounded up some of this year’s hot topics in running shoe research here. Another topic of perennial interest is the intersection of psychology with […]