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For hands-free night walking, running or hiking, this LED lightbelt is a great solution. It is lightweight and it runs on 3 AA batteries that should last a long time. The front spotlight has three brightness levels, beam width adjustment, and swivels to get the best angle. The rear pack has two red safety flashers. It has two zip pockets for small essentials. I found it less distracting to walk with vs. a headlamp. (more…)

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GoMotion Sport Runner Litebelt – Front View 

“This product has been my savior“

I am an early morning runner which means I run in the dark a lot. If you’re like me you’ve noticed that there is a certain time when the traffic really picks up, usually around 6:30 am where I live. I’ve been building my running inventory over the past couple of years to include items from reflective gear to lights. You can never be too safe when taking your running to the streets, especially in those pre-dawn hours. I use to run with a headlamp but it became rather uncomfortable as it pressed against my head or worse, as I began to sweat the headlamp would begin to lose it’s grip and slip down off my forehead. I began looking for other options.

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“I was automatically in love with my GoMotion light”. 

When I first used the GoMotion Sternum kit, it was as if I was snowshoeing with a big headlight on my chest.  “That thing makes you look like Ironman with his ‘glowing repulsor’ heart,” my snowshoeing buddy said.  Of course, nerdy comment aside, I did feel like Ironman; I discovered that an LED light makes the surrounding snow glow.  This nifty “glowing” effect comes in handy around dusk, when the sun drops below the mountains and darkness starts to set in.  I was automatically in love with my GoMotion light.  Every snowshoer needs one of these, in case it does get dark during a snowshoe outing.

GoMotion designed the Sternum Luxeon LED Kit for hikers and endurance runners who want to use their existing packs when hiking or running in low-light conditions. The Kit features a high-output 1- or 3-Watt Luxeon LED with separate battery box and hard-wired power cord for quick mounting to shoulder straps at chest level by two Velcro straps.

Here are the features:
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Fresh finds, true stories.

http://www.dailygrommet.com/products/251-GoMotion-Sport-Runner-Lite-Belt-Vest

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Reach and Beach and GoMotion are partnering up to bring you the best lighting system on the market.

Franconia Notch to Hampton Beach, NH Sept 18-19.

“GoMotion, a New England based company focused on providing wearable hi-output lighting products for active use from running and hiking, to Nordic skiing and backcountry, is very excited to be involved with the Reach the Beach Relay Race.  RTB Relay, now in it’s 11th year, is the longest distance running relay race in the United States”.

• Improved comfort
• Increased stability
• Better Depth Perception
• Better Peripheral Vision
• Better Vision in Precipitation
• Better Night Vision

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Charlie Engle turned in an impressive finish at this year’s Badwater 135 beating his previous personal record by 2 hrs, and placing 4th over-all in 25hrs 45m 11sec.  It was especially impressive given some of his early race issues, and the time he took to decorate the course in technicolor the 1st 75 miles (Badwater Engle Video ).  He turned it up from there, and was pacing 8-9 min. miles at 115 miles in.  I was recently joking with race director Chris Kostman after he told me about Charlie’s pr, that is was most likely b/c he was using our light during the event.  I then had to confess I wasn’t actually sure if he had, or not.  Charlie was kind enough to confirm that he had indeed used a GoMotion 1 Watt LiteBelt during the race, and had these comments:

“Jonathan,
Thanks for the note. I hope that OR was good for you. I did use the waist belt version of the GoMotion light and it performed very well. I really like the comfort and the adjustments that are available. At one point I was using a pacer and I gave him the light because it was so bright, we didn’t need to use two lights. So he just lit up the entire road for me. It was great.
Charlie”

Badwater takes runners 135 miles from Death Valley (280 below sea level) with temps upto 130F to the top of Mt Whitney (8,360′) for a total 13,000′ of vertical ascent and 4,700′ of vertical descent.  It has been coined, “The world’s toughest footrace”  http://www.badwater.com/ .

Charlie is widely recognized for his part in the powerful documentary, Running the Sahara (http://www.runningthesahara.com/ ) where he, Ray Zahab, & Kevin Lin ran for 111 days straight and 4,300 miles across the Sahara desert to raise awareness for the need of clean water in Africa under the charitable organization H2OAfrica (http://www.h20africa.org/ ).    

 It’s great getting 1st hand, hard-core feedback from someone like Charlie – Thanks, Charlie, and best of luck to you in your quest for the Death Valley Cup this year.

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