A decade of selling trail (and road) shoes in Seattle at Seven Hills!! October 2nd marked our tenth year of being open and of course I’ve been daydreaming off all the shoes we’ve had. Here’s our list of the Top 7 Trail shoes of the past decade. The list isn’t in terms of actual sales […]
Author Archive | Phil Kochik
One Year Later
It’s basically been a year since my running hit the reset button. That’s the optimistic way to view having kidney failure, aka renal failure or AKI. A fresh start; a new beginning where running a mile felt like a challenge. But actually I can’t even remember a time previously when running a mile was a […]
Prediction 7 2022
There is a lot of hype for shoes these days. Some products deserve the love, some do not. Here are the shoes we believe will be our most sold Trail Running shoes of 2022. Topo MTN Racer 2 – These failed to make our Top7trail for 2021 only because they weren’t available for very long […]
Top 7 Trail Shoes of 2021
The year is almost over!! 2021 was a good year for us overall. We added Dynafit for the first time and brought back On Running. We had a very hard time getting anything from Salomon, and we gave up on Nike altogether. 2022 will see more shoes from Dynafit, Scarpa, and Saucony. Two big carbon […]
Thankful 7
It’s that time of year to give Thanks! I would love to give a big Thank You to everyone who has come into the shop post Western States to check up on me, especially the ones I was personally lucky enough to talk to myself. Talking through all that happened that day—and after—has really helped […]
Two week countdown
Two weeks from right about now, Walmsley and Hazen will probably be finished resting near the track in Auburn CA after completing the Western States Endurance Run 100 Miler. Hopefully I’ll still be plodding along, inching closer to that same track. I’m super excited that the time has finally come. I’ll be back at States […]
Leading into States
I received an official Western States 100 update email last week! All good news!! Training thus far hasn’t been ideal, but not horrible either. Before I get too worried about anything now, maybe I should recall how things went the other 3 times I had leading into States. 2005 This was my first 100mile run. […]
7 at States getting closer
It feels like it’s getting really real now…sort of. Just saw that GU was named official nutrition sponsor of this year’s race. Optimistic!! I hope they have Liquid GU on the course; it’s so good. I plan to fill a Salomon flask with 10 of them for a cool 1,000 calories or so in my […]
7 at States Feb Update
Well, I’m back to running. It’s not much but it’s pain free. I hope to get back to some serious trail runs in March. The biggest news from February was my shoes: I totally changed from a Hoka man back to an Altra man. I have to say that this switch definitely played some role […]
7 at States January Update
I wish this update had better news to share. I haven’t been running much and have a nagging knee/leg issue. Starting after the Western States 100 lottery in 2019 I’ve wanted to blog away my training. (Scroll back for past posts.) As we end January, I’m starting to feel behind in training as I haven’t […]