By Claire Walter on July 31, 2009
Finnish heir to Exel poles making news in the Nordic Walking World First I read an awsome post called “Conquering a 96 km Challenge (Kokoda Gold, Coast)” early this month. The route honors a brutal World War II trek. The blogger, whose name I can’t find on his blog, but who might or might not [...]
Posted in Events, Festival, Poles |
By Claire Walter on July 31, 2009
Walking — Nordic and otherwise — popular in a French Alpine resort Another European mountain resort has adopted Nordic Walking Morzine has opened what is believed to be the only dedicated Nordic Walking routes in the of the Rhone Alpes region of France. I don’t know specifically how Morzine, the picturesque old town in the [...]
Posted in Europe, Trails |
By Claire Walter on July 28, 2009
Nordic Walking events again to slot into Mental Health Week in Britain A British oganization has connected the dots between exercise and physical health with mental health. Time to Change, an organization in the UK dedicated to ending discrimination against individuals with mental illness, again is organizing a nationwide series of events called Get Moving [...]
Posted in Benefits, Events, United Kingdom |
By Claire Walter on July 24, 2009
One of the nation’s leading daily newspapers spotlights Nordic Walking To those of us who grew up in the New York Times’ sphere of influence (which is everyone in the nation but especially in the metro area), the paper is a major authority on everything. So a small piece on Nordic Walking can have a [...]
Posted in Media, Poles |
By Claire Walter on July 23, 2009
Earpiece adapters for comfort, fit and sound qualityIf you like to listen to music while you’re Nordic Walking, you know that those flat little earbuds that come with iPods and other portable media players aren’t comfortable, don’t fit well and can slip out. Putting them back in means suspending your poling action, which many Nordic [...]
Posted in Clothing and Accessories |
By Claire Walter on July 22, 2009
Writing a personal review of my new Nordic Walking book on the Nordic Walking News blog, Malcolm Jarvis of Nordic Walking Leeds noted, “I very much warm to the writing style which is informal and chatty but nonetheless very well researched and informed. Also, the book does not advocate any one technique over another and [...]
Posted in Book |
By Claire Walter on July 16, 2009
Finnish military buying 3,500 pairs of poles to get recruits into shape without injuryWho says Nordic Walking poles are just for wimps or old farts? According to a report in a website called Good News from Finland,”The army will supply each one of next year’s recruits a pair of walking poles. The first stage of [...]
Posted in Benefits, Europe, Fitness |
By Claire Walter on July 13, 2009
….tune into “Colorado & Company” on KUSA-TV Channel 9 tomorrow (Monday, July 13). The show is on from 10 to 11 a.m., but I’m figuring I am that I will be on sometime around the second half of the second half — in other words, closer to 11. I’ll be talking about my new Nordic [...]
Posted in Book, Media |
By Claire Walter on July 13, 2009
The route is smooth, wide, accessible and uncrowded. What more can a Nordic Walker want? If there is such a thing as a perfect Nordic Walking route, I think the road through the Button Rock Preserve has got to be it. Access is easy (just 4 miles from U.S. 36 west of Lyons, en route [...]
Posted in Trails |
By Claire Walter on July 10, 2009
Lorpen socks from Spain combine innovation and quality I’ve never tried Lorpen socks. In fact, until I saw them displayed at Devil’s Thumb Ranch, I never even heard of them. But I fondled the materials, read the information and later looked them up on the Net. The MultiSport Light sock developed in Spain a bit [...]
Posted in Clothing and Accessories |
