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I met Christopher McDougall in the fall of 2010, soon after his first book, Born to Run, had come out.  The book was both extremely entertaining and mildly controversial, and it has since become the best-selling running book of all time.  It has many storylines, but the thread that connects them is the argument, which…

If Sid Raman, the owner of the new Roam149 gym and the inventor of the very unusual treadmills that can be found there, had been aware of my attitude toward high-tech gadgetry, he probably wouldn’t have wanted me to write about his gym. One of my favorite things about running is the lack of equipment:…

Variety is a quality that no runner would associate with a treadmill—until now.  Inventor Sid Raman’s XPRience immersive VR treadmill offers runners more variety than they could find almost anywhere else: the library of courses among which they can choose lets them move from a track to a road to a forest to the Moon—and…

The Technology A treadmill is a treadmill is a treadmill, right?  For the last 90 years or so, that seems to have been the case. Treadmills, other than the display screens attached to them, were largely distinguished from one another by the number of USB ports, magazine holders, water-bottle holders, and the like on their…

Welcome fellow Roamers to what we hope will be an exciting new chapter in your health and wellness quest. As someone with no prior experience in the health and fitness industry, I often get asked Why? and How? Our project called Roam149 came about. Why Roam? Well, the Why? was to address my own peeve…