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Our gear picks for summer will make you one happy camper. Girl power For high-tech gals, the new must-have pack gadget is Energizer’s Energi To Go SP1000. Weighing in at just 5.4 oz, this solar-powered rechargeable power pack repowers any cell phone, GPS unit, iPod or MP3 player, and fits in your pocket. Set it [...]

It’s Not Just For The Hardcore. All you need is an adventurous spirit and a can-do attitude to tackle this popular destination travel phenom. Surprised? Read on. Rappelling is not actually hard. Wearing a harness attached to a rope, you pretty much just back your way down a rock wall, or in my case, down [...]

GEAR 1. run Salomon, best known for their ski and snowboard gear, puts their all-weather, all-terrain technology to work for runners, too. Light and stable, their XA Pro 3D ULTRA GTX trail runner transitions seamlessly from pavement to trail and can handle even the sloppiest spring conditions. These babies will stick to anything and actually [...]

Put your fitness into play with an urban race. My teammates and I had already biked through downtown Denver to locate a paintball coliseum, ran up and down 20 flights of stairs, skidded down a giant Slip ‘n Slide, used clues to piece together a secret location and ran four miles to reach it, schlepped [...]

Is there such thing as too much exercise? Breathe explores the fine line between a healthy habit and a deadly obsession. Kristin Seifried hit the gym after dinner. The young man at the front desk greeted her by name, gave her a big grin, and commented that she was their “best client.” Seifried was there [...]

Seven of us pedal mountain bikes along a bumpy dirt road trying not to spill paint from the cans balanced on our handlebars. Children look up, calling out “Jambo!” as we pass. Some run from their homes to greet us, their sunny smiles reaching us before they do. I’ve exclaimed the Swahili version of hello [...]

Five more reasons to look forward to snow days.

Eco-friendly clothing companies, social responsibility, organic cotton, natural fabrics, vegan shoes: it would appear the fashion world has stepped up onto the environmental bandwagon. But what does it really mean to green your wardrobe? Conscious consumerism has gone mainstream: Wal-Mart is now the world’s largest buyer of organic cotton. The sales of organic fibers and [...]

More women are racing road bikes than ever before. But they’re doing it a little differently than the guys. Consider the scene in the race parking lot at the Jefferson Cup Road Race in Charlottesville, VA: Hillary Styer and Zina Labudde slather on the sunscreen, while Nicole Shue digs around in her car to find [...]

There is an epiphanal moment in our adult lives that I’ll call the “Nutritional Awakening.” For some, it’s a dire situation brought on by health concerns or first-time pregnancy. For others, it’s inspired by a book like Skinny Bitch, read at precisely the right time. For me, it was Joe, a personal trainer in über-fit [...]