Nico's blog — Posts tagged "Running"

I recently went on a family trip to Italy, and I brought my running gear.
This fun article aims at comparing my experience as a tourist and as a runner :)

Testing SmashRun's Friends Report

September 22, 2022 — Nico Cartron

SmashRun recently released a new feature, called "Friends Report", whose goal is to give you more insight into how your friends' running is going. Let's have a look!

Trail Running in Rancho San Antonio County Park, CA

September 12, 2022 — Nico Cartron

Recently, during a business trip to the US, I ran in this beautiful park.

Trail in Paris: 25 hills trail in Fontainebleau

August 13, 2022 — Nico Cartron

Who said training for a trail was impossible in the Paris area?

Review of the Altra Rivera Running Shoes

June 25, 2022 — Nico Cartron

The latest addition to my Altra collection.

Test of SuuntoPlus Guide on the Suunto 9 Peak

May 21, 2022 — Nico Cartron

A deepdive on this new feature - what's good, what can be improved

Running with Skinners

April 29, 2022 — Nico Cartron

I bought my Skinners a while ago, during their crowdfunding campaign (5 years ago, in January 2017!) but didn't really use them a lot.
I did it recently, so here's my review of those "shoes/socks".

Back on Suunto!

April 03, 2022 — Nico Cartron

In this article, I'm explaining why I came back to Suunto as running watch.

Review of the Salomon Ultra Glide trail shoes

February 09, 2022 — Nico Cartron

I recently bought and started using my first Salomon shoes - let's see what I like and don't like with them!

My first Trail race - Hivernale des Templiers

December 17, 2021 — Nico Cartron

I recently ran the "Hivernale des Templiers", a very nice Trail race in South of France. As it's my first trail race, I wanted to provide some insight.

A deep dive on SmashRun for detailed running statistics

October 25, 2021 — Nico Cartron

If you're a runner, chance is that you want to analyse your runs with fancy diagrams. You're in luck, as SmashRun aims exactly at that!

Different running sessions for less boring runs

August 18, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Whether or not you're a runner, you've probably heard many times "Running? Man that's boring!".
Let's review how you can prove that wrong!

A History of my Altra Running Shoes

July 13, 2021 — Nico Cartron

A fun one for me, to keep track of the shoes I'm using to run - focusing on Altra.

Why am I running?

May 28, 2021 — Nico Cartron

... or more precisely "why are you running?", is a question I heard a lot from friends, colleagues and acquaintances, specially when I started running seriously on a regular basis.

Let me explain you why, and the many benefits this has to me!

Sites publishing popular Running Routes in cities (2/3)

April 14, 2021 — Nico Cartron

Second article in this series, this time focusing on sites publishing "popular routes in cities".

Sites for manually drawing Running Routes (1/3)

March 16, 2021 — Nico Cartron

This article is part of a series of 3, where I'm exploring the different options available for runners to create routes and then use them on their running watches.

In this first article, I am testing the major sites able to draw running routes, with the use case of "drawing the route yourself, from a specific starting point/distance",
The second article (to be published) will focus on sites publishing "popular routes in cities",
The third article (to be published) will deal with "route shuffling", or sites that allow creating random routes from a specific starting point.

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