Burn More?
From Runner’s World: Running v. Walking: How Many Calories Will You Burn?
Two weeks ago, I began planning an update to a Walking v. Running calorie-burn article that I had written for Runner’s World magazine in 2005. When that article subsequently appeared on the RunnersWorld.com website, it attracted a lot of interest and comments. Some of those comments displayed the widespread confusion and outright disbelief that’s common to this topic. Continue reading Weekend Reading List (5.26.2012: Burn It, Surf the Pin-ups, Idaho Trails, Lance is the Ironman, Slinky Hits the Treadmill
Some people like to garden, some people might also like a beer garden, but now comes a new type of garden – a Wavegarden. This allows for home-grown waves for surfing right in the backyard. This could be a godsend to those who want to hit the surf but live far from the beach.
While surfing has been a coed sport long before the days of Gidget, most surf shops still cater to a surfer dude type of clientele. The South Coast Surf Shop, which is been a staple of the communities of Ocean Beach and Pacific Beach since 1974, looks to close one of its five retail locations near San Diego’s most popular beaches. Beginning this month South Coast Longboards will be transformed into South Coast Wahines Ocean Beach, catering to the female surfer. 
There was a rumor that Research in Motion was developing a BlackBerry 10 mobile handset that would be called the “Surfboard,” but the mobile phone maker is actually involved with surfing in a different way. The BlackBerry maker actually held the SurfAid Ball in Sydney, Australia.
Don’t tell the guys at Signal Snowboards/Every Third Thursday it can’t be done. They’re created snowboards with iPads and boomboxes built in, and now they’re done what a lot of people would likely say can’t be done – a snowboard that can double as a surfboard!
While that polystyrene foam – sometimes called by the brand name Styrofoam – does a great job protecting consumer electronics while in the box, the white stuff typically ends up in the garbage. But now the foam is seeing new uses as a surfboard.
Designer sports bag and apparel company OGIO just released its OGIO Endurance Collection. The line has bags that address the needs runners, swimmers, triathletes, cyclists, downhill mountain bikers and other athletes in endurance sports and competitions.
There is no denying that the skateboard came about when surfers put wheels on short boards to ride on land when the surf wasn’t up, and now some surfers from Huntington Beach, California are essentially reinventing it all over again with the Hamboard. What makes this one different is that it basically combines modern skateboards with a surfboard, resulting in what the creators called “a really big skateboard” or “basically an uber longboard or longboards.”