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Today's Tailwind Nutrition tip of the trail is brought to you by our SoCal Correspondent

Jimmy Dean Freeman.

Jimmy Dean, we just ask you if you do a tip and we gave you zero time to come up with

the topic.

So this will be interesting.

What do you have?

Since you guys have left me naked out on a limb with no time to prepare, I am going

to talk about running equipment free.

We all have our satellite GPS watches and our heart rate monitors and our training logs

and some people run long runs with some MP3 players and iPods and whatnot.

Every once in a while, it's easy to get lost in the numbers, bogged down, it's a bummer

if you go out for a six hour run and you want to listen to a little music and you realize

that it's not charged a song and a half into it.

Really getting back to the roots of things, it's really nice sometimes to walk out the

door without a watch, without a heart rate monitor, without the iPod or fancy electronic

equipment.

You need those runs that are just for the sake of running without all of the gadgets and

sometimes getting away from all of the equipment is really cathartic and enjoyable and you

get home and you can estimate how far you ran.

You can look at the clock and go, oh, I started at 6.30 and I finished at 7.45.

You don't need all the knick knacks to be a runner to enjoy the run and I recommend

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