Runs With Mascara: Killer New Light by Go Motion

Monday, January 9, 2012

Killer New Light by Go Motion

The light does not sag when you are standing or running, just having weird posture to take a self portrait!

I just got this new AWESOME light as photographed so poorly above. The light is the Sternum Light Kit 100 by Go Motion. I got it as a gift from one of my fans, Neil Dicker, aka, stepdad. When he heard I would be running through the night at races he wanted me to have the best light and gave me discretion to pick one out. I have seen people with headlamps around their waist and was intrigued. I decided on the Go Motion Sternum light as I love having my handsfree and my headlamps are all annoying for one reason or another. One is super bright but the size makes it so I need to wear a brimmed hat to keep it from creeping down over my eyes. This is great except some of the light shines on the brim making it less effective. If I tighten it and wear it without a hat there is a divot in my forehead for a week. The other headlamp points in any direction it wants due to some loose plastic that is just a poor design.

The sternum design of the Go Motion is awesome. Basically the sides of the light have cushioned velcro loops that allow you to hook it onto any pack you have. The battery pack fits nicely into the pack you are using and the cord connecting the light with the pack went easily out of the way. The battery pack has a blinky red light, great for visibility if you want it.

I tried it out on a short night run that I was doing to see how it would perform. I was running barefoot on a local soccer field. While it is not technical terrain it is important to look out for dog poo, dropped forks and other hazards lurking. The light was fantastic! First, you can really focus the beam and it stays where you put it. It is 100 lumens so that is a fantastic amount of light. It has a low setting so you can tone it down for longer battery life. While the light felt heavy in the package, I didn't feel it at all on my pack and it didn't bounce, jostle or get annoying at all. It was easy to put on and take off and it makes me want to go out for my long runs in the dark just so I can use it more.

No idea how well the battery will perform. It says it lasts 8 hours on high which would be amazing. Even if it lasts 6 that would be great. This is definitely going to Zion with me.

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Who is Team Runs with Mascara?

Runs with Mascara is Dana Katz and Samantha Pinney - training partners and friends for the past 3 years; adventurers with a flair for musicals and running skirts, and a generous respect for looking good when sweating hard. While they’ve had many adventures across the West, one of their more epic spans was a week they spent racing from the Bizz Johnson trail marathon in northern California to rappeling in Arches National Park, to biking the White Rim Trail in southern Utah to running the Moab Half Marathon. This is their first race endeavor as a team under the name RWM.

Samantha Pinney overcame the malls of her New Jersey youth for an obsession with the outdoors that carries her from skiing to ultra running to outrigger canoeing and whatever adventures she can find. She can’t imagine life without running skirts, flip flops or beanies and wields a kettle ball as deftly as she does a mascara wand. She competed in the 2010 Crossfit Team Games, has multiple top 10 finishes to her name but can’t throw a softball to save her life. She’d like to be a better surfer.

Dana Katz is a recovering triathlete and cyclocross racer turned ultrarunner. She eats hills for breakfast that she doctors with homemade concoctions of flaxseed and ginger granola in her ongoing quest to create ridiculously healthy and delicious meals. Dana is a globetrotter who in a recent span ran a ½ marathon in Brazil, a trail run in Sweden, a marathon in northern California and a harried loop amongst the monuments of Washington D.C. before boarding a plane. She doesn’t leave home without her running skirt and snacks. Don’t let Dana’s easy-going, amicable personality fool you: she trains like a warrior and competes with a vengeance.