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What if every running shoe was size 10?
Imagine if all running shoes and bicycles came in one size and one shape. That was it, no other option but a size 10 shoe for running on the road, or a medium bicycle that didn’t allow you to adjust the seat height. Imagine if the running and bicycle companies treated us as if we were all exactly the same. Sadly this is how the sports nutrition companies that make powdered and ready made drinks think of us. When you add a powdered sports drink to water you are making a preset solution, which we’re told will provide everything we need to supply the energy, electrolytes and hydration. They think we are all exactly the same and the conditions we train and compete in never changes. Well we are different and the weather conditions are constantly changing and being locked in to a set volume of fluid...
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Salomon SLAB Sense Ultra Trail Running Shoes Review by Hanny Allston
Finding a shoe that will meet most of our requirements as a trail runner is really difficult. Not only do races throw multiple challenges at us - single tracks, rougher terrain, roads - so too does the weather! What happens when the rocks get slippery or the scale of muddiness increases? Then of course we all partake in training or ‘missioning’. Whilst I enjoy the freedom of the trails on my daily jaunts, there are times when I find myself cruising the roads and footpaths too, be it for recovery, long runs, speed or access to new trails. Asking one shoe to do all this for us is quite a challenge! However, I honestly believe that the all new Salomon SLAB Sense Ultra trail running shoe gets damn close to achieving this for me. Details and technical specs is not my strength so here is my ‘layman's' review of this shoe.
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Finding My Femininity
This year I hit the big 30. I had really been looking forward to this milestone in my life. On the day I turned thirty, I stood atop the final summit of my ‘30 peaks in the year before I turn 30’ challenge. Whilst it had come down to the wire, I felt wind-chapped & glowing from the inside out. That was until injury hit and I took a visit to my GP. I walked into her sparsely furnished consulting room in urban Hobart with a few concerns. Mainly girl stuff. I expected a stethoscope, perhaps a poke and a prod and in the worst case a jab to steal some blood. What I didn’t expect was for her to quietly look me up and down, tuck back her hair and say earnestly, ‘Hanny, I think you need to embrace your femininity’. ‘My what...!’ Ninety dollars poorer and none-the-wiser, I sat in front of Dr Google. What is femininity and what relevance could this possibly have for this 30-year-old tomboy with a phobia for dresses...
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