Author Archive | Phil Kochik

Well, what the heck: we’ll call the new for 2016 Altra Lone Peak Mid Top a trail running shoe!  It makes both the men’s and women’s Top7 lists for September. September was a month of flux as we saw a few models go away to make room for new models to come.  Already to land […]

Every month we like to do a #top7 trail running shoe list for both men and women to let folks now what’s big at Seven Hills Running Shop.  The Altra Olympus 2, shown above, loomed above all others for the first half of 2016. If you follow us on Instagram, you’ve already seen our lists, […]

Throughout the summer, we’ll continue to update you on the best-selling trail running packs at the shop.  The #Pack7 May’s Pack7 Salomon S Lab 5L set Ultimate Direction Adventure Vesta – womens specific Salomon S Lab 12 set Ultimate Direction Ultra Vesta – women’s specific Ultimate Direction PB Adventure Vest 3.0 Ultimate Direction Groove Stereo – […]

Men’s May Top7 Trail Running Shoes Altra Olympus 2.0 Hoka Challlenger 2.0 Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Pearl Izumi Trail N2 v2 New Balance Vazee Summit Montrail Bajada 2 Altra Superior 2.0 Women’s May Top7 Trail Running Shoes Pearl Izumi Trail N3 Merrell All Out Peak Altra Olympus 2.0 Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Hoka Challenger 2.0 […]

We’ve done #Top7 shoe lists for awhile now–monthly and the big mid-year and end of year reports. Today we’re unveiling our first ever Top 7 Hydration Pack List: The #Pack7 We’ll continue to do monthly pack reports through the spring and summer and at the end of 2016 crown the Best Packs of the Year! […]

April 2nd 2016 saw the third running of Rainshadow Running’s Gorge Waterfalls 100k, a beast of a course winding through old growth forest along an incredibly sublime and scenic stretch of the Columbia Valley River Gorge in Oregon. The primarily singletrack course rolls through about 12000′ feet of gain and takes runners past some impressive […]

  Women’s #Top7 March Pearl Izumi Trail N3 Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Merrell All-out Peak Altra Olympus 2.0 Scott Kinabalu 3.0 Hoka Challenger ATR 2 Topo MT 2 Men’s #Top7 March Altra Olympus 2.0 Pearl Izumi Trail N3 Altra Lone Peak 2.5 Altra Superior 2.0 Merrell All-out Peak Pearl Izumi Trail N2 Montrail Bajada 2 […]

April 2nd saw runners take on Rainshadow Running’s Gorge Waterfalls 100k. This year the gruelling out and back race along the Columbia River Gorge was both a Western States Golden Ticket race for 2016, and a qualifier for the 2017 race. While Rui Ueda (9:09:37), Chris Mocko (9:10:04), Jodee Adams-Moore (10:27:58) and Amanda Basham (10:34:10) […]

SHOE REVIEW: New Balance Vazee Summit review by Korey Konga was, and still am, a HUGE fan of the NB MT101, but haven’t been super stoked with any subsequent updates made to the line until recently when New Balance rolled the MT into the Vazee Line. I tested the proto this summer in the Olympic […]