I spent the last three months testing the best trail running shorts across 280 miles of rocky, rooty, and sandy terrain in Colorado and Oregon. I ran with gels, soft flasks, a phone, and keys in every pocket to see which shorts stayed put and which ones bounced me off the trail. Our team also […]

I tested 8 of the most popular GPS watches on technical singletrack, rocky climbs, and 50K training blocks over the past 90 days to find the best trail running watches for . After logging 412 miles of off-road runs across the Blue Ridge and Pisgah forests, I learned something the spec sheets won't tell you: […]

I still remember the morning I clipped on my first trail running headlamp for a 5 a.m. start on a technical ridge in Oregon. I had 14 miles of roots, rocks, and creek crossings ahead of me in pitch dark, and my cheap headlamp dimmed to a sickly yellow at mile 5. That run taught […]

I remember the first time I tried running a 30K trail race with a handheld water bottle and my phone stuffed in my shorts pocket. By mile eight, the bottle was slipping, my phone was soaked in sweat, and my gels had bounced out somewhere on the singletrack. That miserable day sent me on a […]

I have logged over 2,000 trail miles across the deserts of Arizona, the rocky high alpine of the Rockies, and the loose scree of the Pacific Northwest, and I can tell you one thing without hesitation: trail running gaiters changed how I run. Before I started testing them, I would stop three or four times […]