Author Archive | Phil Kochik

Prediction 7 For 2018

The prediction lists for the upcoming year are my most favorite lists of all! There are other shoes of 2018 we are excited for, but these here are the ones we believe will sell best at the shop. Top7Trail Men’s 2018 (Prediction) Altra Timp – The Timp stays the same through at least most of […]

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Top 7 Trail Running Shoes 2017

Every year, we like to highlight our Best Selling Shoes!  As a trail running focused shop, we pride ourselves on having the best selection of trail running shoes around.  This year our percentage of trail shoes dipped a bit to 65.6%.  Road shoes accounted for 34.4% of our shoe business.  Previous years have been closer […]

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2017 Favorite Shoes

Here are the Staff’s picks for Best Shoes of 2017!  Click here to see what we’re most excited about for 2018! Check back soon for our year-end Top7 lists.  What will our most sold shoes of the year be?!  What will be our most popular brands?!  Stay Tuned… Glenn Hoka Speedgoat 2 Altra Escalante (as […]

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Wishful 7 List

  We love our lists…especially the year-end style.  You can say we really sink our claws into them! #TrailClaws First up: the 7 shoes we are MOST excited for in 2018–the ones we wished we had already! #Wishful7 Most Anticipated Trail Running Shoes of 2018: Inov-8 Terra Ultra 260 – July – Unlike any Inov-8 […]

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Spooky 7 Trail Running Shoes

Heading into Halloween, here are the trail running shoes that have been scaring up the most sales at the shop–our first ever #Spooky7!! Women’s Spooky 7 Brooks Caldera Salomon Sense Ride Altra Timp Altra Superior 3.0 Topo MT 2 Merrell Trail Glove  4 Altra Lone Peak 3.5 It is scary that the Lone Peak is […]

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Top7Trail 5th anniversary

We’ve been open 5 years–to the day!!  October 2nd, 2012 we started small: 7 Shoe brands and only 10 or 11 trail models on the wall.  Now we have 12 Shoe Brands and nearly 40 different trail models and a host of road running models. Thanks to all the customers over the years who have […]

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Sizzling 7 Trail Shoes

Summer is sizzling–and so are these trail running shoes!  We missed our Mid-year Top7Trail lists, so here we present our first ever #Sizzling7–the hottest selling shoes year to date at the shop.  Enjoy! Women’s Sizzling7 Topo Terraventure – The Terraventure has taken the place of the Pearl Izumi Trail N2 in terms of a “go […]

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7questions with Kaytlyn Gerbin

photo by iRunFar.com Kaytlyn Gerbin of Team 7hills and Team Vfuel ran in the Western States 100 last Saturday.  It was her second 100mile race and first Western States.  She finished 4th after being out of the Top 10 most of the day. We caught up with her afterwards for a 7questions interview; here’s what […]

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May 2017 Top 7 Trail

Women’s Top7Trail May 2017: Topo Terraventure Altra Superior 3.0 Altra Lone Peak 3.0 Brooks Caldera Hoka Challenger 3 Merrell Agility Peak Flex Topo MT2 Men’s Top7Trail May 2017: Altra Lone Peak 3.0 Topo Terraventure Altra Superior 3.0 Brooks Caldera Saucony Peregrine 7 Brooks Cascadia 12 New Balance Hierro 2 The Topo Terraventure is really picking […]

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Top7Trail April

April is the month when sales really start to pick up.  Here are the shoes that capitalized most from the improving weather: Women’s Top7Trail April Altra Lone Peak 3.0 Merrell Agility Peak Flex Saucony Peregrine 7 Topo Terraventure Altra Superior 3.0 Brooks Caldera Hoka Challenger 3.0 Men’s Top7Trail April Altra Lone Peak 3.0 Topo Terraventure […]

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Photos by Glenn Tachiyama