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These Countries Offer the Most Bang for Your Buck in 2024
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. As a frugal college student, I stretched my dollar in budget-friendly backpacker hot spots like India, Mexico, and Bali, where the dollar has traditionally had strong buying power. While those destinations are still affordable for many American travelers, that list has grown. This year the dollar has surged against many foreign currencies, including the South African rand and Japanese yen.
The Olympic Games Are Returning to Salt Lake City
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. This past April, International Olympic Committee member Karl Stoss was in Salt Lake City on a final visit with the Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 Winter Olympics bid committee. As he was leaving, Stoss, who chairs the IOC’s Future Host Commission, stopped at an airport help desk to inquire about his departure gate. An enthusiastic airport employee noticed he was with the Olympic movement and gushed, “Bring the Olympics back to Utah!”
I’m Obsessed with the Olympics Opening Ceremony
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. I was nine years old during the summer of 1984, and the last thing I wanted to do was watch the opening ceremony for the Los Angeles Olympics on television. My family had one 29-inch Zenith Color TV set. The pageantry was on, and that’s what we were going to watch.
Six Olympians We’re Excited to Watch at the 2024 Paris Olympics
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. On July 26, the 2024 Olympic Games kick off in Paris, and thousands of athletes will compete for medals across 32 sports over the course of three weeks. Millions viewers—myself included—will watch some of these Olympic sports and athletes for the first time. That’s part of the fun of the Games: niche sports and lesser-known athletic heroes get a moment in the spotlight.
These New Adventure Memoirs Lay It All on the Line
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. When I worked as an editor at Outside, the formula for a typical adventure memoir often read like this: get trapped in blizzard, trigger avalanche, capsize in Southern Ocean, watch as climbing partner falls hundreds of feet to certain death. But now the adventure world has become much more open to things that were rarely mentioned back then: mental illness, body image, trauma.
Should I Be Drinking More Electrolytes in This Heat?
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. As I jogged up an arroyo at high-noon on a local trail near my home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I felt the sun beating down on my head and shoulders. I glanced at my phone’s weather app, which informed me that it was 78 degrees Fahrenheit, but the “real feel” was 87 degrees. My shirt was drenched in sweat and my fingers had started to swell. I reached for the last sip of water from my running vest as I hit mile three.
The Quest for Ideal Running Form
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. In 2011, two years after his book Born to Run launched the barefoot boom, Christopher McDougall offered a clarification. “The ‘one best way’ isn’t about footwear,” he wrote in The New York Times Magazine. “It’s about [running] form.” Rather than simply ditching their shoes, people needed to learn how to run better. No one, after all, assumes that we’re born knowing the best method of swinging a tennis racket; we need to be taught technique. Why should running be any different? There was a problem, though: no one could agree on what the ideal running form looked like, or even what elements mattered. Research was needed, and scientists around the world got busy.
How to Watch the 2024 Paris Olympics: TV, Streaming, and More
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris officially kick off this Friday, July 26, with the opening ceremonies in Paris. Across the country, millions of Americans—myself included—are preparing to glue ourselves to the television to watch every javelin throw, ping pong smash, and tear of joy or disappointment between now and the closing ceremonies on August 11.
The Ultimate California Road Trip
California is huge. But it’s the diverse landscapes, not just size, that make California so attractive to anyone who loves the outdoors. The short list: nine national parks (more than any other state); 840 miles of coastline with more than 1,150 public access points; and 12 distinct regions, each with its own flavor. From desert terrain to coastal mountains that plunge into the Pacific Ocean, from fertile valleys to the alpine wonderland of the Sierra Nevada, California is really one giant playground. I’m all about playing outside, so naturally I was super excited for a midsummer road trip from San Francisco, down the Central Coast, through the Central Valley, and into Kings Canyon.
Of Course America’s Newest Olympic Mountain Biker Is from Durango
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. Long before earning a spot on the 2024 U.S. Olympic mountain biking team, Riley Amos was just another teenager trying to navigate his local group ride. It...
Release Radar: The Coolest New Outdoor Gear of 2025
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. When we’re hungry for a look at the upcoming year’s brightest gear innovations, we head to the Outdoor Market Alliance media show, a biannual hands-on preview between the people who sell and market gear and the folks who cover it. Our look at 2025’s haul did not disappoint, with fashion-forward hiking apparel, featherweight sleeping pads, and some awesome new car camping tech. Here’s what’s on our release radar for this fall and early spring of 2025.
American Wagyu Is Having a Moment. What Is It, Exactly?
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. Have you noticed that the butcher counter at your local grocery store has been taken over by something called “American wagyu?” Mine certainly has. So, I set out to find out what exactly it is, how to best cook it, and whether or not American wagyu is worth the higher price over plain old prime-grade beef.
Wildfire Forced Jasper National Park Residents to Flee Their Homes
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. One of Canada’s most popular national parks has been evacuated due to encroaching wildfires. On Monday, July 22, the Canadian government ordered 4,700 residents living in...
A Hydrothermal Explosion Closes Part of Yellowstone National Park
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. A massive hydrothermal explosion rocked the popular Biscuit Basin area of Yellowstone National Park on Tuesday morning. According to the National Park Service, the eruption occurred at...
I’m Having a Midlife Crisis. Will a 2,000-Mile Hike Snap Me Out of It?
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. I’m in my mid-forties, and for the past 15 years, I’ve lived an extremely steady, boring life. I know I sound like a stereotype, but watching my friends get older and experience health problems makes me want to savor the youth I have left. When I think of living like this for the rest of my life, and then dying, I start to freak out. I want to do things. Both of my kids are teenagers, and when I watch them try new things—full of possibilities for how their lives could go—I’m incredibly happy for them. But I wish I could have that same feeling of possibility for myself.
Is This Running Challenge Ridiculously Hard, Ridiculously Fun, or Both?
Here’s your summer challenge: log 11,000 feet of elevation in 30 days. Work your way up—walking, running, or hiking—and track your cumulative vertical gain in Strava’s HOKA Be the GOAT Challenge to complete those 11,000 feet. Sound absurd? That depends on your perspective. From the streets...
The Best Places to Watch This Year’s Most Powerful Meteor Shower
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. I shrieked like a kid on a carnival ride the first time I saw a fireball—an exceptionally bright and colorful meteor. It was autumn 2022, and I was on a northern-lights road trip in Iceland. I’d spent hours watching the sky fill with green swirls, but this surprise, teal-tinged streak stole the show.
Is the Uberlight Gear Experiment Over?
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. Fifteen years ago, ultralight hiking gear was truly edgy. Every cottage brand had a 12-ounce silnylon pack. Half-length pads and body mapped designs were a compromise between full-on misery and smart packing. Alcohol stoves (or better yet, a Crotch Pot) instantly marked you as a hardcore ounce-cutter. Critically, these experimental kits allowed thru-hikers astonishingly low baseweights.
Why Running Clubs Are the New Dating App
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. I am not a runner. And yet somehow, on a recent rainy Saturday morning, I found myself literally chasing men around the marshy parkland in my East London neighborhood.
Why Is Magnus Cort Racing the Tour de France with a Blue Mustache?
Don't miss a moment of the 2024 Tour de France! Get recaps, insights, and exclusive takes with Velo's daily newsletter. Sign up today!. The third week Tour de France blues have hit Uno-X Mobility leader Magnus Cort. No, he wasn’t sad today at the start of stage 16; in fact he was his usual jovial self.
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