These are products, services, places, and experiences I have personally used and would recommend. I have included a short explanation where the name alone does not tell the whole story.
🏃 Running Gear
Apparel & Accessories
- District Vision — premium running apparel and eyewear with a distinctive look
- Rabbit — comfortable, dependable running apparel
- Tracksmith — classic-looking running gear that performs as well as it looks
- Boot Buddy — the only thing I have found that reliably cleans white running shoes; it worked well enough that I bought one as a gift
Footwear
- Adidas Adizero Boston 13 — a versatile shoe for everyday training and faster runs
- Nike Vomero 18 Gore-Tex — my choice for wet and messy winter running
⌚ Running Tech & Electronics
- Garmin Forerunner 970 — my primary running watch and the best fit for the amount of data and control I want
- Garmin HRM-600 — a chest strap that adds useful running metrics to the Garmin ecosystem
- Gymboss Timer — a simple physical interval timer that is excellent for run-walk workouts
- Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 — open-ear headphones that let me listen without losing awareness of what is around me
- Peter's (Race) Pacer — the Garmin data field I install before a race; it corrects GPS distance at course markers and shows exactly where I stand against my goal time
📊 Training & Analysis
- Intervals.icu — powerful training analysis without an unnecessarily complicated interface
- Runalyze — exceptionally deep analysis for anyone who enjoys digging into running data
- Strava — still the best social layer for running and other endurance sports
Races & Running
- Parkrun — hundreds of free 5K events every Saturday across the US and the world
- Rhode Races Newport Half Marathon — a scenic, well-run New England half marathon
- Falmouth Road Race — a special seven-mile race with a difficult course and an atmosphere that lives up to its reputation
- runDisney — expensive, crowded, and unlike a normal race, but a genuinely fun experience if you like both running and Disney
🚣 Home Gym & Fitness
- Hydrow Lyquid — a compact cable-based strength system that works well in a home gym
🏠 Home Technology
- Home Assistant — the best smart-home platform if you want deep automation and local control and do not mind some tinkering
✈️ Travel
Tools & Loyalty Programs
- Flighty App — excellent real-time flight tracking presented in a clean, useful interface
- TripIt — the easiest way I have found to turn confirmation emails into one organized itinerary
- Frequent Miler — a blog and podcast for making sense of points, miles, and travel rewards
- Love and London — the best London-planning resource I have used and worth paying for even on a short trip
- World of Hyatt — the hotel loyalty program from which I consistently get the most useful family-travel value
- National Emerald Club — reserve a midsize car, skip the counter, and choose a car from the aisle at participating locations
Places & Experiences
- smallcarBIGCITY — a private London tour in a classic Mini; it gets off the standard tourist path and was a hit with my son
- Dishoom — Bombay comfort food and one of my most consistent London restaurant recommendations
- Nimb Hotel — an exceptional Copenhagen splurge, especially with a child when Tivoli Gardens is open
☕ Coffee & Lifestyle
- Ratio Eight Coffee Maker — a beautiful, straightforward way to make consistently good pour-over-style coffee
- Trade Coffee Subscription — an easy way to discover good coffee from different roasters
📱 Productivity & Apps
- Fantastical — the calendar app I prefer across my Apple devices
- Todoist — the system I actually use to keep personal and work obligations organized
- Kagi Search — a paid search engine with no ads or sponsored results and unusually good control over what appears
- Rakuten — easy cash back for purchases I was already going to make
💵 Personal Finance
- Advice-Only Financial — Harry Sit's independent directory for finding financial advisors who give advice without managing your investments or charging an asset-management fee
🐼 Kids & Family
- Stillwater — a rare children's show that is gentle, thoughtful, and genuinely enjoyable for adults too
- Jon J Muth's books — beautifully illustrated stories, including the books that inspired Stillwater
🎧 Podcasts & Media
Apps
- Overcast — a focused podcast player with excellent audio tools and playlist controls
Running
- Rise & Run Podcast — especially good for runDisney news, planning, and community
- The Running Channel Podcast — an entertaining mix of training, racing, and the broader running world
General Interest
- All The Hacks Podcast — practical, unusually detailed conversations about travel, money, and improving everyday life
- The Atlantic — consistently thoughtful long-form journalism and analysis