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June 5, 2023
Bike Retailers Ride Inventory Glut As Demand Softens
As American consumers return to spending money on experiences post-pandemic, they’re not spending nearly as much at bike shops as they did during the COVID-19 outbreak. Thus bike retailers that struggled to keep inventory in stock during the peak demand of the lockdowns and restrictions of 2020-2022 now have too much...
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June 5, 2023
Study finds speedwork (not hill repeats) more likely to cause stress fractures in runners
The findings come from a study in which researchers enlisted 17 volunteers for treadmill runs up to 16 km/h, at five different slopes. Through complex modeling that also pulled information from motion-capture testing and a database of computerized tomography (CT) scans of volunteers’ tibia bones, researchers were able to get...
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June 5, 2023
Amazing Camille Herron Breaks Men’s Course Record at Texas Trail Festival Marathon
Ultrarunner Camille Herron added a new notch to her belt over the weekend, taking home the top prize in the Texas Trail Festival marathon in Spicewood, Texas, breaking the overall course record by nearly two minutes with her 3:49:47 victory. She also walked away with a pretty sweet longhorn-shaped birdhouse...
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June 2, 2023
25 entrants disqualified from 2023 Comrades Marathon for ‘cheating’
Comrades Marathon disqualified 25 entrants from this weekend's race for supplying false information. The esteemed South African event features a number of entry restrictions and requires competitors to have run at least one qualifying race between a set qualifying period. Run247
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June 2, 2023
Lululemon Powers On, Topping Estimates and Raising Its Outlook
The economic realities of the moment — with worried consumers, high inflation and high interest rates — don’t seem to apply to Lululemon Athletica Inc. Shares of the buzzy active company shot up 13.7 percent on Thursday to $373.37 after it continued to grow rapidly, topping first-quarter profit and sales projections and raising its...
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June 1, 2023
REI Introduces Its First Trail Running Shoes Since 1970s
REI jumps back with a brand-new trail runner line called Swiftland. Not only is this shoe a big deal for REI, which has been out of the running shoe game for almost half a century, but, according to the brand, it’s also a big deal for the planet. The Swiftland...
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June 1, 2023
Quality closes its Colorado mechanic school
Quality Bicycle Products has closed its bicycle mechanics school, U of Q, which was previously known as Barnett Bicycle Institute. The Minneapolis-based distributor said its projections pointed toward a decline in enrollment. The closure caused QBP to lay off three employees while registered students were refunded. The school was located...
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June 1, 2023
Running throughout middle age can help prevent memory decline, study shows
Scientists at universities in the United States and Mexico are adding to the growing evidence of running’s benefits to brain health with research looking specifically at the effects of regular exercise on neurons formed in early adulthood. Their findings, published in the journal eNeuro, show long-term running not only promotes...
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May 31, 2023
BMC Kaius 01 One review
BMC brought along the Kaius to complement its more rugged and extreme-terrain focused URS and URS LT gravel bikes. Instead of suspension and slackened off-road geometry, the Kaius is all about low weight, aerodynamics and straight-line speed. Bike Radar
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May 30, 2023
Nike launches ‘first’ hydrogen-powered inland container ship
Global clothing brand Nike has launched the ‘first’ hydrogen-powered inland container ship in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Developed by Future Proof Shipping (FPS), the retrofitted 110m x 11.45m containership, dubbed H2 Barge 1, has been chartered by BCTN Network on Inland Terminals for Nike EMEA. Now fitted with hydrogen fuel cells,...
