Paulomi Debnath has shared a kiss with her husband every morning for 18 years.
Ron Hill ran every day for more than 52 years. When does an enjoyable habit
become a compulsion?
Anyone who spotted the run Tom Vickery uploaded to exercise tracking app Strava
on 18 February last year might have been a little confused. The 30-minute sprint
appeared to have taken place right in the middle of the Channel, not far from
Guernsey and heading towards the west coast of France. The run was also,
curiously, a ruler-straight line, appearing on Vickery’s public profile as an
unbending, inch-long streak of orange in the blue swathe of the app’s virtual
sea. Oh, and it was at a world record-breaking pace.
Of course, anyone who knows Vickery wouldn’t have been surprised at all. The
38-year-old triathlon coach from Cambridge was on a two-day ferry trip to Bilbao
for a holiday and this rather speedy jog was simply another run on his then
nearly four-year daily running streak on Strava. Determined not to break his
streak on board the ship, Vickery had risen at 5am to run up and down the deck
for his allotted 30 minutes, and the boat’s progress through the water meant he
appeared to be running faster than any long-distance runner in the world.
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New running headphones combine bone conduction and open-air speakers for more
rounded sound
So-called bone conduction headphones are a runner’s best friend, allowing you to
be fully aware of the outside world while you listen to your motivational tunes.
But the technology simply can’t generate decent bass – a problem that the
open-ear headphone firm Shokz thinks it has solved with its latest OpenRun Pro
2.
The follow-up to the popular OpenRun Pro and OpenSwim lines, the OpenRun Pro 2
cost £169 (€199/$175/A$299) and resemble most competitors, with bone conduction
pods held in place in front of the ear by two loops and a band that runs behind
your head.
Water resistance: IP55 (spray resistant)
Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.3 (SBC)
Battery life: 12h
Dimensions: 30.9 x 21.7 x 24.3mm
Weight: 30.3g
Drivers: Air and bone conduction
Charging: USB-C
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