December 2011

Running Safely in Winter

December 29, 2011
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Running in the winter is a huge issue for competitive athletes and recreational runners both. While it is important, fulfilling and fun, it can also lead to injury if you're not doing it properly.  Jeff Gaudette at Competitor Running has written a great piece about  the challenges of running in the frozen cold.

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Footbalance Awarded Red Herring Global Top 100

December 22, 2011
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We are thrilled to announce that Footbalance has been named to Red Herring's 2011 Top 100 Global list. Footbalance, along with the other selected global companies, accepted the award at the Red Herring Global Forum Ceremony held in Los Angeles on December 7, 2011. Red Herring’s Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising companies and entrepreneurs, honoring the year’s most bold and far-reaching private

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Employee spotlight: Sarah Tunstall tells how Footbalance insoles help her run injury free

December 15, 2011
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Today in the Footbalance blog our UK tech rep Sarah Tunstall shares her own Footbalance insole story.

Anybody who's known me in the past couple of years, know's that I seem to have been made of glass...or at best chocolate! I have suffered quite a few injuries, all stemming from my biomechanics that seem to have caused one thing after another.

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The World's Toughest Races

December 13, 2011
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How tough are you? How tough is your race?  We found this nice piece from Finding Dulcinea about the world's hardest races. Do you think you have what it takes to race across the Sahara? Death Valley? 1000 miles on a bike?

Here's a sample:

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Footbalance Tech Rep Joins Brooks Sports UK Athlete team

December 9, 2011
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Brooks Sports has signed Sarah Tunstall to its athlete team in the U.K. Sarah is an accomplished Mountain and cross country runner. Highly energetic, Sarah has also worked over the past year as a technical representative for Footbalance, fitting us into her rigorous, world class training schedule. She has pulled this off with aplomb, and her enthusiastic advocacy in the field for Footbalance custom insoles is well known.

Please join us in congratulating Sarah!

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The Best Running Tips

December 6, 2011
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The December issue of Runner's World Magazine has a nice piece by Yishane Lee with the 10 best running tips for every runner, compiled from Runner's World readers.

It includes a lot of good basic advice, like this:

EXERCISE CAUTION
"Listen to your body telling you that it needs a day of rest," says Laura McElduff, a reader in Northvale, New Jersey. "Otherwise you'll end up burned out, overtrained, or injured."

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