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Bosu, Thai Bo, Spinning

No, I am not trying to learn Chinese or Japanese slang. These are just the names of some sports I tried in a fitness club, because, yes, unfortunately, I have not find any other option to practice sport in Moscow.
It was a good surprise for me to go to these sessions. The common point is that you have ONLY girls at these lessons :-) But believe me, it isn't for sissy !
Spinning :
Take 10 to 15 people, put them in a small room on bicycles which looks like the latest anti-technology system created by some vicious torture specialist. Take a teacher (usually a good looking and smiling girl). And begin to ride your bicycle during 30 min, 45 or 1h15. It's unbelievable the things you can do on such simple bicycles. That's a very good training for the week-end rides on my brand new old cannondale ! For those looking for a good interval training session, definitely, it's the good thing to do.

Thai Bo :
It looks like Thai Boxing, it smells like Thai Boxing, but it is not Thai Boxing. It's only the training, the repetition of the moves. Speed, strength, rhythm, coordination. Great training, in between the interval training, the self defense training in the Army, and a fitness course. If you have not practice any "explosive" sports since several weeks or months, it'll be hard to get up the day after your first Thai Bo Training. Definitely good for speed, interval training, coordination.

Bosu :
Stands for "Both Side Up", it's a half ball on a platform. It's incredible the silly (but hard) things you can do on this. This is great for balance training, keeping the body straight. That's perfect for coordination, balance, breathing. Good training for sports like surf, snowboard, but also climbing.

I just need to had 2 hours of swimming per week on this program, and I'll be ready to attack the spring waves season in a perfect mood !

Cannondale !

Thanks ebay !!
Hope this new stuff will give me a lot of fun. And also, I hope it will save my knees ...

Sliding Liberia

(Seen on thecleanestline)
The kind of surf trip which joins humanity, travel, surf, and happiness. Go have a look at the official website of "Sliding Liberia".
A lot of interesting things to read.
Is surf more than only a sport for young wealthy girls and boys ? Definitely yes. It looks as a cliche, but it changes your life forever.
Enjoy the movie and the site !

(Picture : Screenshot of the homepage of the site Sliding Liberia)

Une belle brochette !

From thecleanestline : Lance Armstrong, Kelly Slater, Laird Hamilton, etc etc.
A full page of exceptional people, in several domains.
Lynn Hill cannot stop climbing everywhere, even on a chair :-)
Kelly has lost his sponsor, so he's looking for a new one able to offer him a pair of shoes and a shirt/
Lairs Hamilton is not that tall finally :-)

Back to basics

It's been a long time since I haven't been doing interval training. Today, back to basics.
7 times 30'' at less than 3'30'' per km.
5 time 1' at less than 3'30'' per km.
Hard to get back to the feelings I had 3 years ago for my last 10 km in a desert somewhere.
But it's good to come back to small personal challenges. Do not have time to go surfing this week (and believe me, it really sucks !!), so will try to free my spirit with these runs.

Longskates and elephants

Like these elephants.
I think the skates are tough enough to support an elephant family while riding the long slopes around your home.
Go there and order a custom board !

Support your local skateboard shaper !!!

Looking for a Guide around Chamonix ?

If you are planning to go climbing, walking, mountainering around Chamonix, give a call to Thomas. Be sure he will show you the best spots around to climb.

It smells real

Reading this post  on the cleanest line, I thought : It smells real. This is a genuine post, done by someone real, and who expresses exactly the feelings of many other runners.
I share exactly the same views about running. And about the clothes to wash, effectively, it's a kind of problem for the environment. So when the clothes are not so dirty, but smells :-) I use some natural detergents : Washing nuts (noix de lavage)
That's a real eco alternative I think.

Running in Ismaylovo Park

- Seen a lot of people in bathing suit, catching the sun in funny positions
- Seen a lot of women wearing thongs
- It's the beginning of the "pukh" season (a sort of white stuff like goose down, everywhere). Hard to run and breathe with clouds of "pukh".
- Seen in the middle of nowhere, a scene with dancers, singers, a lot of decibels, and flashy colors, to entertain people who happen to be there
- Seen 7 runners, including one girl
- Seen one grandmother and her granddaughter. The grandmother had a green tree leaf on her nose to protect it from the sun.
- Seen a girl, white as the cold winter snow of Siberia, trying to get tanned. I thought she was the snow girl of the Russian fairy tales. I think that at this time, she is just a water drop. She will re-appear in November
- Thought that 160 km this summer in the mountains is crazy, when I see how hard it is to run 25 km when it's 30 degrees outside.
- Wondering why some  Russian girls and boys wear clothes as if they were going to a night club, but they are going to a park ?

Funny and crazy country.

Salomon fast wing hoodie jacket

Sorry for Patagonia this time ... I have found a nice Salomon jacket to bring with you when you go running. The Salomon fast wing hoodie jacket.
Small, light, and with a stow pocket.
Nothing really new you would say, but usually, when you have stowed your jacket, what do you do with it while running ?
If you have a small bag with your camel back, then you put it inside. But if you do not have any bag and do not want to take any ?

Salomon answered this very simply. You can fix it to your arm because there is a simple band with a velcro scratch.

Small, light, easy to carry. The right answer to runners' need when the weather becomes rainy.

Fields of transat

While running in Hyde park in London, I saw that London Citizens are able to crop transats.
Really, you can see a lot of transats, chairs, everywhere on the beautiful english grass.
It's very convenient when the weather is like it was monday and tuesday in London.

Naturally

No chrono, no heart monitor, no foot pod, ...
The road, the woods, the squirrels, the cold, the rain.
All natural. Only listenning to your body.
Feeling that you go faster than usual, with no limits, no milestones, no plan. 10, 13, 15 km, nevermind. 40 min, 1 hour.
Measure your effort only with your breath, your sweat, your muscles burning.

Feel alive ! All natural !

Slippery when wet !

While I was in Moscow last week, all my friends in France said that it was spring, the weather was great, etc etc
This week I am in France, and it's winter time ! Cold, wind, snow, rain ! Never mind, I'll keep training, whatever the weather is.
Saturday I managed to convince a friend to go running the "25 bosses" .
So, she picked me up sunday morning at 08h00, and we went to a departure point for the run. After one hour running, walking, climbing, the rain appeared. She was still motivated, but the tracks became tricky because of the rain. Many times it goes up and down on the boulders, and the rocks are slippery when wet.
Never mind, my runmate  kept smiling, despite a hard fall on the rocks, and we finally managed to run more than 12 hills. We came back to the car, and that was a 2h30 run. That's a real pleasure to run with someone smiling, and not complaining about the rain, the boulders, and all that. Moreover, when your runmate usually goes slower than you, it forces you to run at low heart rate, and it's good for long run training, plus, you help your friend doing something she would never achieved alone.
That was the first time since many months since I've been running the "25 bosses", and even with rain, it's always a great pleasure to run in these woods.
The good news also, is that the new knee I bought in duty free friday was working well on the hills, up and down ...
Conclusion of this run :
- I need to buy new trail shoes (mine are getting too old ...). From my point of view, the Salomon's are the best (grip, long lasting shoes, etc etc)
- The Patagonia wind tracker is fine for this kind of weather and for a 3 hours run (but now you may try the nine trails jacket)
- Energy bar are not as tasty as natural bananas, apples, and a good home made chocolate cake :-)
- The endurance pack is fine for the 25 bosses. But I think that for the UTMB, I'll keep the salomon one I used last year, as he is bigger and lighter for a 48 hours race.

Here is the run profile (using Polar Perfomance Software + AXN 500 watch) :

Polar experience

-15, great blue sky, sun light.
Early morning.
Running in the streets, in the snow. Hard to breath.
Freezing around the nose, the eyes.
Perfect moment.
Perfect feelings.
Running on the ice, on the snow, between the trees.
Will I meet a great white bear ?

Pastaruline

If you read UFO you may have noticed some advertisings about a product called "spiruline".
I heard about this product in UFO, and, yes, in "the L world" (please forgive me :-)), I was tired after a run and that was the only thing on the  TV). I remember a girl, (yes, there are not a lot of men in this TV show) mentionning to another, not to forget about her Spiruline in order to feel better. Knowing that it was mentionned there,  and in a serious  magazine for runners, I was  surprised. Is it another trick from labs to sell us more and more stuff ? Is it something really working for your health ?
So I tried. First of all, it does not taste that good. I mean the pure spiruline powder, it is not as good as chocolate. But, you have strange experiences, like the pasta with Spiruline. Strange and surprising, because it tastes not so bad if you cook them right.
What I can say for the moment : I do not see any special results, but the fact is that, I do not have, for the moment, any special problems. So may be it helps me keep training hard. I do not know.
The funny thing is that, when you have guests, it's always funny to cook them some strange menu, including Spiruline Pastas :-)

Never do it again ... up down

Life is an experience, and as I mentionned in a post, experiences cannot be transferred ...
So, in the Never Do It again list, here are some new elements :
- Never forget your Yaktrax when it's -20 and snowing hard if you want to go running
- Do not imagine that because you have +38 and some bananas, you will go down to 37 after a run by night with -20 degres outside. It does not work at all. Even after a warm bath, and good pastas.
Well, in fact, may be it works, but I need to wait tomorrow morning to tell you that, if I get up ... :-)

Intervals (2)

Sunday morning, while running, I met my old friend. I already spoke about him here.
Sure he is old, but he seems to keep on running, with the same strength, the same smile on his face.
That makes me believe in the fact that sports is really good for your body and your mind and the harmony  !

Have a nice week.

Body Harmony

Surf, climbing, martial arts, and so Yoga, are about the same thing : body harmony. These activites are among the ones which requires, strength, concentration, balance, humility. Many other sports may require the same qualities, but I speak only about what I know :-)) (more or less).
I began practising judo when I was 5 years old. Since then, I never really quitted. I even extended my practise to Ju-jitsu, and some other martial arts, to try, to feel the balance, the interests, the philosophy. These years of practise brought me a lot about, balance of the body, how to manage a fight with someone bigger and stronger than you, trying to find his weaknesses. It also showed me what respect is about. When someone is stronger or when you are stronger, then you respect the situation, the people, and you try to learn from this situation. Like when you go surfing, and find it difficult to catch the waves, or when your wipe out is so huge that you need to stop for a while.
What I like in martial arts and in surfing, that's the feeling in all your body after a training or a session. You feel all your muscles, your brain is quiet and ready to analyze, learn, about your successes, your failures during the training. You feel that you are learning, you are growing.
Joel Tudor practises Ju-Jitsu, and he is doing well, and many other surfers are practising Yoga, or also Ju-Jitsu (like the french surfer Yannick Beven).  I have not taken any specific resolutions for 2007 (I find that silly, why waiting for a new year to take the right decisions !! ? ), but there is one thing for sure, I will never quit surfing and practising a martial art. For the peace of the spirit, for the balance of the body, for the harmony.

(this post is dedicated to all the people who teached me martial arts, with the right spirit, with values, and with friendship)

Surf and snow info

Hot winter is not so bad for some surfers, especially in Parlementia. All the news are available here.
Also, for those who want to get some adrenaline in the mountains, have a look there , on Yadugaz
And for people who are not Patagoniacs and live in Moscow, now there is a brand new The North Face shop. I've seen that on a street advertising. That's funny, because few years ago, The North Face had a very bad experience on the Russian market, due to a special context, and problems to manage the distribution network. Now, with the market changing a lot, growing fast, The North Face is going back in Moscow.

Raining, Running, funnying, surfing

- Getting up a little bit late due to long evening
- Smiling at the snow falling
- Crying when the snow becomes rain :-((
- Taking a cab which needs to stop every 500 m to clean his carglass, because the wipers are not working at all.
- deciding to go running, despite the rain, the cold and the late evening
- wondering how it'll be to walk (run ?) during more than 36 hours (46 ?) in August for the UTMB
- Ending the chocomaniac kit

In fact, I am less and less influenced by the weather for practising sports. It can rain, snow, there can be a storm, I realize that it gives to the outdoor activities a different interest. The same running path under the sun or under the rain gives totally different results, images in the head, and it's a kind of journey, without taking this g********* d******** plane again :-)
Same thing for the waves. A landscape of apocalypse, with a lot of wind, big sets, is also a very beautiful landscape, and the feelings are totally different than on a coral reef wave.

I wrote one day that life is like a wave on a coral reef. Now I would better wrote, life is like a surfing trip, all waves are interesting, and in some way beautiful and dangerous. That points out the best quality for a surfer from my point of view : being able to adapt his life, his feelings, his body to any conditions he meets.

But gosh, that was the best wave ever !!!! :-)

Wetsuits again

This is the season to speak about wetsuits, so let's do it ...
While reading the 70 percent blog, I saw the post about Matuse.
Impressive ... Seems to be really good and nice to wear while in the cold winter water !

Cold, cool, Fous ta cagoule !

When it's cold, when you want to avoid this hard cold strike on your forehead when the set is on you, when you are afraid of the wipeout because the water is too cold ... Then you have one solution :
FOUS TA CAGOULE ! !!!

Patagonia WetSuit mystery

I've read on 70 percent a post about the Patagonia wetsuit. In this post, it is mentionned :

I estimate the guy has $400 or so in the wetsuit and $400 to $800 dollars of billable time in making the site. That’s either some serious brand loyalty or a very sneaky guerilla marketing campaign. Given Patagonia’s stellar reputation and the fact the the photos on the site are pretty bad, I’m going with the latter.

Well, I would like to clarify some points.
First of all, I am not an employee of Patagonia. I've been working years ago for Patagonia, as a consultant for Russia. Since then I only kept some very good contacts with some people inside the company, and this is true that I really like the brand, the products, the spirit etc etc. So, on my side, I am not doing any paid viral marketing.

Then, as far as I know, (but this can be easily validated by Ali) the website done by Ali, about the Patagonia wetsuit, has not been ordered by Patagonia, and is not inserted in any viral marketing campaign. You can see the comments Ali put on my blog .
To tell you the story of the post I've done about the Patagonia wetsuit, I received from Patagonia a mail about the award Patagonia received for this mail (because, as I told you, I kept good relations with Patagonia Europe). So I asked Patagonia Europe if I can receive more details and publish it on the blog. They sent me the PDF, and I wrote a post. That's it.
Only content publishing, and from my point of view, people who are ready to pay a little bit more some products, but they know the money will be partly used for the planet. Nothing really elaborated and calculated behind this. If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask them on this blog.

The Patagonia websuit :-)

When looking at the statistics on this blog, I see that a lot of people are finding this blog using Google, and making queries on the Patagonia Wetsuit.
Ali posted a comment where he says :

"Thanks so much for this PDF with details of Patagonia's new wetsuit.  I ended up buying the suit [...]"

Well, you are welcome Ali, and thank you for the link to the Unofficial website about the Patagonia wetsuit. This is a really good initiative.
Nice pictures, and very good guide to show the product in details, with its efficiency.

After the patagonia wetsuit, we have the patagonia websuit :-))

Scrutsh, frutsh, vrutsh ... (*)

Smooth, cold, intense, he is there ... Winter !
I couldn't wait, back from work, even if already late evening, I wanted to hear that silence of the snow, under my shoes, the snow flakes on my face, ...
Running in such conditions is like surfing in january when the outside temperature is below 0.
People think you are crazy, you look like an UFO, wearing strange clothes, but you are in your world, feeling a different sole, hearing different noises, breathing differently ...
Another time, another world, just there, near you. No need to take a plane to travel, just run ...

Happy winter to everybody !

(*) : noise of my feet on the snow tonight :-)

Intervals

Running this morning in a small park in Moscow. Head on the OFF mode to make interval training. 10 times 300 m fast. Total training of 9 km. All the required equipment to be ok. Patagonia Capilene, Salomon shoes, Polar. The 21st century runner.
Then, I saw one small runner. (I mean smaller than me, so believe me he is not tall at all :-)).
He was doing interval training to. Coming near him, I observed him. 60 years old, shoes which were probably given by the USSR army in 1956, sweat shirt back from Olympic games in Moscow, and his automatic chronograph.
Intervals : Interval training, intervals between his generation and mine, between his equipment and mine.
But same training method. Despite the years, despite the cultural differences, despite our different personal stories.
That creates a  complicity, a smile on two faces. That's the strength of passion and running.

Dialog with squirrels

Remember, I mentionned how disappointed I was after the 20 km in Paris, and the atmosphere, the feeling ...
Well, while I was running in the forests this week end I was lucky and happy. And this confirms the interest of nature running, trails, ...
Saturday, after 15 minutes of run, just in front of me, a doe crossed my way. I stopped and observed it running away.
Then, after 30 minutes, while looking at the trees which suffered from the wind the day before, I saw a squirrel. Climbing up the tree, looking at me, climbing up the tree, staring at me. I stopped. Time stopped. No watch, no chrono, just the squirrel, the tree and me. But something happened. On the tree just on the right, another squirrel. Climbing up the tree, looking at me and his friend.
That was nature, that was real, that was the reward of this run. That was a confirmation that sometimes you make the right choice, at the right time, at the right place.

Nice mosaic !

Clouds - Tags - Colors - Results - Mosaic. Many tools are produced to easily visualize results, and performance. For blogs, and feeds, look at this, or that.
For your training, your sports results, if you use a Polar like this one , you can put your results on your polar perfomance software.
Ok, ok, you may make a lot of analysis, a lot of stats, etc.
But finally, if you want to feel happy about your training, following RFM (Recency, Frequency, Miles :-))) method, you just have to look at the colors on your planning and you'll see in a blink of an eye if you had a nice training period ...
You can also put online some of your results, using the polar website.
And, if we speak about clouds, I saw much more clouds while I was running, than on the web ...

Claire in Regulator WetSuits

Thanks again to Tex (and Marion) for the info :

You remember Claire, a Patagoniac ..., well here she is again :

Claire Karabatsos during the prizegiving at the EuroSima Awards,
receiving the "Special Award for Ecological Innovation" for the Patagonia Regulator Wetsuit! 

(Look here all the champagne bottles, I am quite sure Tex was there on purpose)

plus Claire in the wetsuit - fitting perfectly...

Polar - follow up : the end !

I received my new Polar today. Remember, I had some problems with my Polar AXN 500, and finally they replaced the watch. So I have a new 2 years guarantee on the watch and I tested it tonight for a 1h00 run. It works :-)
Now, I will test it under hard conditions of cold, snow in Moscow, and I'll take it in the mountains, forests, plains, to push the limits of it. I want to be sure that the Polar AXN 500 is really a good choice. I was very disappointed and upset before the UTMB because the watch was out of order. So, to be fair with Polar, I'll test the AXN 500 in harsh conditions and I'll let you know about it. To be true, I really like the Polar 625 I have, but it is not really a good watch for climbing, mountainering, etc. It's good to run.
So, I'll keep you update ...

Raining days

20h30, back home. It's raining. A look at your watch, at your shoes, waiting for you. You wonder why you bought this great storm protection jacket ? Then, after a while, you jump in your shoes, in your jacket, and go ! Brrr ! first drops in your eyes, in your neck, you get warm, you open the zip under your arms, you feel the warmth.
What was an ugly raining evening in Moscow is now a jungle run in the tropics. Warm, humid, strange.
Small runs, big pleasures.
(the pictures has nothing to do with this post, but it brings colors, flowers, and it smells, good. Yes, try to get your nose closer to the picture, close your eyes. This is a new Typepad feature :-)).

Why Women ... ? (2)

Funny ! This morning, small run around the place you know. And guess what ? As if all the Russian girls running there, have been reading my blog, this morning, there was a girl/woman (hard to say), running the same way than me ! Just to prove that yesterday I was wrong writing this.
Why women are always teasing men :-) ?

Why women are doing things reverse (or the other way) ?

I've been running in Moscow this evening. I usually run in the small parc you can see here.

So, while running, I saw 2 guys running the same way than me, using the usual way in athletics (trigonometric way I would say).

Then, the other way, there was a young nice lady running !!!! I did not pay attention to her, but after 5 km and 8 times I saw her, that stroke me ! Why was she running this way and the 3 men, the other way ?

The answer is as simple as incomplete : she is a woman, we are men !!

Polar - follow up - last ?

Remember my Polar problems ... ?
Well, I did get a call today. A brand new Polar is waiting for me in the shop !! Looks like the problem I had was not solved, so they replaced it.
Will get it as soon as I'll come back to France, and will let you know if the model is the brand new one, if  everything is fine etc.
And believe me, I will test it in hard conditions ...

To be continued ...

Is that a Noke ? (joke from Nike :-))

Well, some of you may have heard of Nike and Ipod and this.
Nike has launched with Ipod, a test with bloggers. They have a challenge. Each team of bloggers must run as many km as possible.
I've been looking at the results and the posts. Honestly, I am really wondering now if the NIKE IPOD solution is to measure your real performance or if it is a new gadget to show when you go to Ibiza ???
Are you sure Nike and Apple are targeting runners ? Honestly, it looks like this is a gadget, not very serious, and which does not offer any real training solution and motivation for the runners.  Just look at the runners' performances and you will understand it clearly ... I mean who can really believe that this is made for runners, when people are hardly running 4 km in more than half an hour ...
Moreover, and I am sorry to tell that, but the selected runners are funny, yes, but not really professionals who will motivate me to buy this kind of product.
Today I was wondering : Why I have not bought any Nike products to run in the last 5 years ? Well, in fact, now this is obvious : They are not good enough !
If you look at Adidas, Salomon, Patagonia, Asics, Puma, ... they have increased a lot the quality of their top products, and this is true. I never bought Adidas products till last year. And now, I have more than 3 keys clothes from them. The last one is the SUPERNOVA Jacket to run in Moscow when it is cold as today (-3). This is a great product, and with a R1 rrom patagonia or even a Capilene under, it is simply great !!
While Adidas and Polar are now offering a fully integrated system for runners, with clear PC interface (see graphs here for example and on this post), Nike is betting on a more "trendy" solution, which from my point of view does not give a good image of Nike in terms of performance, sport, and professionalism.

So, Just Do It, ok, but now we can understand in : Do just/only that :-))

Don't you think this action is a total failure if Nike wanted to target real runners ?

Never do it again ... Update

So last sunday crazy people were running the 20km race in Paris.
I did it, but ... yes there is a but.
Let's come back to this : the never do it again list !
In this list I mentionned :

Do not run the Courmayeur - Champex - Chamonix race again (to be checked in 10 months).

Well honestly, I need to correct this. Let's compare the 2 races : 20 km in Paris and 86 km in the Alps.
First of all, we were only 1000 people for the North face trail. So when you are in Courmayeur, behind the line, it is not as if you were in the subway waiting for the next station with an ugly big guy standing on your feet and a smelly woman just in front of your nose. But when you are in Paris, you wait long minutes, very long minutes, among all sort of people, more or less nice.
The atmosphere is totally different. In Courmayeur, everybody knows that if you only end the race in 24 hours, then you are a good guy, and if you don't end the race, who cares, you'll try next year. In Paris, everybody (not really, but this is a feeling), si looking at you as a potential foe, a wall behind the departure and the finish line !
In Courmayeur, in the first minutes of the race, everybody smile, sqy excuse me if they touched you trying to overpass you in the narrow paths. In Paris, I heard bad words between people, jsut because they did not managed to find the required cm to gain 2 minutes for the arrival.
In Paris if you run with your bag, just because you do not care about it, and you want to carry some stuff for a friend, some people are laughing at you and consider you as a martian. In Courmayeur everybody carries a bag and is ready to help the others, anyway this is a rule to follow : always help the other as you are in the mountains. Security and friendship are priorities, not the race.
In Paris many people seems to run to show off. In the Ultra trail, many people run (or walk) because this is a beautiful race, beautiful landscapes, and a kind of nothing to show off race, as the winner wins the right to come back next year, like every others ...
So, to be honest, I remember now why I wanted to try an Ultra Trail. This is absolutely not to be one of the happy few, and show off with it, this was because, it's beautiful, free, and a really great challenge for your body, your friends, your mind.

Of course, I would like to congratulate all the people who organised the 20km in Paris and all the runners, but now I know that this is not for me.

So I think that next year ... I'll try it again :-))) Not sure yet, but, ...

The Kailloux team ...

So here they are ...
Congratulations to Kailloux and the new members !!!
Go have a look there and there
Really good example of how you can have a good team for your brand and moreover, have a fun altogether.

Rell Sunn

Thanks to Tex for sending me this message about Rell Sunn website.
http://www.rellsunn.com/

"There are Rell films, her favorite music, even grandbaby photos, and her furniture. Jan, owns RELL' MOTEL, near Laguna Beach, where she has reproduced much of Rell's HAWAIIANA collection, admired in SURFER'S JOURNAL (Vol2#3, Fall 93).

If you didn't know Rell, I hope her website also conveys the tenacity she and her friends needed to 'pry open' pro-surfing for woman. Rell opened and decorated a Patagonia store in Haleiwa' with her own Hawaiiana and very special piece's from her friends. I hope she would be proud of our Tokyo Ocean Patagonia and Cardiff Patagonia Ocean stores. Each are uniquely different, following her rule to honor Hawaii by respecting 'locals' the world over in her surf travels.

I hope you will support Rell's daughter's web site, by forwarding, to those who love Hawaii.

Keep alive Rell's charm of love, respect, athletic prowess, and optimistic tenacity."

It makes a difference !

With the growth of Ultra Trails, long running, raids, a new technology is more and more used by brands to help the runners run longer, faster, better : the Muscle Support.
This is the principle you'll find in the products of Decathlon (I tried it, and really, this is good), but you find it also at Salomon  and remember I mentionned it for the  gaiters for the UTMB
For sure, if you run 5 km sometimes, you will not really see the impact of the muscle support. But, after 30 minutes, or during a hard interval training, you will clearly see the difference.
During long races (longer than 1 hour), you will feel the support on the muscle, the knees, and it makes you feel more comfortable.
Of course, you will not run really faster, your training is your only solution :-)), but it helps feel better.

Become a Team Member of Kailloux !

Hello,
Here is a message from Kailloux for all the climbers. Sorry (or not :-)), this is French. But to summarize, if you are a passionate climber, and if you want to support