Gear Junkie team wins Checkpoint Tracker Championship Race

Stephen Regenold and Team Gear Junkie won the Checkpoint Tracker Championship Race after 29 hours and 110 miles of distance tackled in the wilderness. The team traveled and fought for their title on foot, bike, boat and riverboard in the New River Gorge of West Virginia.

Trailrunning 

This annual event attracts the top endurance racers from across the US to team up and tackle the elements for the championship title. This year’s course included whitewater rafting, trail running, mountain biking, orienteering and riverboarding.

Riverboarding 

Check out Stephen Regenold below sporting a Suunto in his victory photo.

Justin Bakken, Thomas Puzak, Kelly Brinkman, Stephen Regenold

Hats off to the GearJunkie/WEDALI team for an amazing performance and a great win. 

Suunto Core Video by Tacticalgear.com

Tacticalgear.com has released this video from the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market in Salt Lake City with the Suunto Core featured. Please take a look and enjoy. (click the image for the link)





The Core is the all-in-one outdoor sports instrument for the vertically inclined. Check out these features:

• Altimeter with altitude log memory and altitude difference measurement
• Barometer with storm alarm and weather trend indicator
• Automatic Alti / Baro switch
• Compass with semi automatic calibration and a digital bearing
• Depth meter
• Multiple watch, date and alarm functions with dual time and countdown timer
• Sunrise/Sunset times for over 400 locations worldwide
• Digital thermometer
• Menu based user interface in English, German, French and Spanish
• Available in a range of styles
• Accessory straps
• User-replaceable battery

What Kilian Jornet is up to in 2012

We're excited to see that Suunto Athlete Kilian Jornet is planning another big year of running in 2012. Here's his latest plan for hitting the trails (after the snow season ends, of course - Kilian is off to Mount Etna for the Ski Mountaineering Trophy World Cup in Sicily next week!)

"This year I wanted to do different things, after many years of doing the same races, and wanted to seek new goals, new discoveries."

Here's his schedule, with a few comments from Kilian on each:

May 12: TRANSVULCANIA 83km. (Canary Islands-Spain) A career run that I wanted to compete, on an island paradise (!)and this year with an exceptional level ... but it is only 1 week after the PDG run!

May 20: Zegama 42km. (Euskadi - Spain) / A Classic - this will be the 4th time I have participated. Without doubt one of the essential (in my opinion with di Mont Giir Sierre Zinal i) Great Environment!

June 23: Western States 100. 100M (California USA) The 3rd participation for me, despite being a career that suits my conditions I want to return for the environment and to stay after in the little known Californian mountains.

June 30: Kilian's Classic: (Font Romeu Pyrenees) more than a race, a party of Trail running, with running friends, and a chance to show you my country.

July 20 to 22: VK and SkyRace Dolomites. 2 km and 21km (Dolomites - Italy) I ran this 3 years ago and it left me a very good taste, a spectacular region and a beautiful career.

July 28: Speedgoat. 50 km. (Utah - USA) Off to the United States again to spend a month there to discover and run by its mountains in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada.

August 19: Pikes Peak Marathon, 42km (Colorado - USA) An American Classic, the 3rd oldest marathon in the USA and the 1st mountain race. It felt like a long race last time!

August 26: KIMA, 50km (Valtellina - Italy) One of the great, the first Skyraces and one of the more technical. Pure Skyrunning!

October 14: Kinabalu Climbathon 21km (Borneo - Malaysia) Short but the hardest, 2300m up and down technical trails. This year I return to Asia for this beautiful race.

Oct. 19: Grand Raid Reunion, 170km (Reunion Island) The 20th anniversary probably holds many surprises. How to describe this race? Impossible, people, environment, landscapes, nature, hardness ... a dream

Movescount is now an App!

We are excited to announce our Movescount app is now available at the Apple App Store.


All the elements you love about Movescount are now available on the go via your iPhone. Now you can instantly keep tabs on your moves wherever you are. Movescount is your chance to really take advantage of the tracking capacity of your Suunto equipment. Store every single workout you do with the amount of detail you want. Share your most memorable workouts with your friends and the online community. Join groups of likeminded athletes and compare your results at competitions and events.

It's incredibly simple to use - login to Movescount.com and record your workout, share it, talk about it!

Make your Move, track your progress, share it online.

Cadence Q & A

Recently we asked Suunto Ambassador Adam Chase, long-distance running superstar - who won more than 20 ultramarathons, is captain of the Salomon Trail Running Team, former Prez of the American Trail Running Association, co-author of "The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running"- to explain the importance of running cadence.

Here is the Q and A:

Q: What is Running Cadence?

A: Running cadence is the number of times either your left or right foot hits the ground in one minute. Concentrating on improving your running cadence can make you a faster runner and help you exert less energy while gaining the same amount of ground. Studies have shown that the world's fastest long-distance runners have a higher cadence than the average runner, between 85 to 95 steps per minute.

Q: Is that true? Why is it important?

A: The problem is that the statement is erroneous. While some of the world’s fastest runners do have a high cadence the high cadence isn’t the source of their speed as much as it is the fact that they are less likely to be injured. Those same runners will run at the same cadence on a slow run or fast run, the difference being the length of their stride. Higher cadence is often connected with where one lands on her or his foot. Heel strikers have a tendency to overpronate and exhibit higher impact pressures whereas midfoot and more so forefoot runners are able to better dissipate the shock over more steps and through the more resilient part of the foot and that is why people are taking up minimalist or barefoot running. In a nutshell, the objective of striving for a higher cadence is to minimize injury. Barefoot runners are almost never fast but they are able to train a lot more and that often results in running improvements, including efficiency.

Thanks Adam! Great insight.

Recommended watch for keeping track of your cadence: Suunto Quest.