Hard to believe, but this will be the third Election Day since the shop has been open. Here are the shoes you “elected” last month to be our best selling shoes of October: Hoka Speedgoat 4 – Buckle up: this shoe could hold the office of President for another year. SG5 may not release until…
2020 has been a year like no other. My running had a clear focus at the beginning of the year: Western States 100. By mid-March that plan was busted. I still trained hard through April and May. I knew that if I didn’t train for something, my running would quickly deteriorate to nil. Part of…
July brought us some cool New Trail Shoes from Altra, Brooks, Topo, and Salomon–and the big winner was Altra!! Not only did the brand new Olympus 4 dominate the sales charts, we also saw a resurgence of sales of the Lone Peak 4.5 and Timp 2.0. The bust of the month was the lack of…
There might be an absence of firework displays this year, but luckily we have some hot, high-flying shoes to fill the void. Here are the best selling shoes at the shop leading into the Fourth!! Top7Trail Women’s June Altra Timp 2.0 – How will the new Olympus 4 effect Timp sales? We’ve definitely seen Timp…
Finality for Western States should be a belt buckle; a final blog post should be an inspiring race report. Covid changed everything for 2020. I find it hard to believe that my big race—the race I’ve wanted to do again for 10 years—would have been this Saturday. That today I would have arrived in Squaw…
Western States would have been this Saturday, June 27th! All entrants had the option to roll over into the 2021 race. Jeff Browning is one of those runners. Jeff, aka Bronco Billy, has finished in the top 10 the last 4 years: 2016-2019. He was 3rd overall in 2016; 4th in 2017; 5th in 2018…
Like April our Covid May was dominated by Hoka. We sold 37% Hoka, 21% Altra and 16% Brooks for our Top 3 brands followed by Topo Athletic and Salomon. Trail shoes started moving better again. This month we were 56% trail versus 44% road. You can set up a time to try on shoes by…
Our little running shop usually sells 70% trail running shoes to 30% road. Brand wise we’re usually at 40% Altra and 20% Hoka. This past month the numbers basically flipped! Mainly road shoes and mainly Hoka! A special thanks to all the staff at Hoka! We did so many fill in orders this month, and…
We don’t normally do road shoe lists–but as the trails are closed down and lots of our regulars are putting more miles in on the road, here goes! Special note: I use my Hoka Speedgoat 4 everywhere, road and trail. I ran around Lake Washington (50ish miles) in the Speedgoats last year (mostly pavement) and…
I’ve mentioned having dreams about Western States in some other posts. A lot of my night dreams feature me getting into the race at the very last minute. I’m in Squaw, the race is starting in minutes; I go to a registration table and shyly ask, “Does there happen to be an open spot?” Answer:…