Run Long, Run Healthy — June 13, 2024
Find Your Best Shoe With Science; Foam Rolling Beats Muscle Soreness; This Form Fix Stops Knee Pain
PLUS: Power up — runner’s guide to heavy strength training; Keep your “Body Battery” on 100% full charge; New track trick: Wear road shoes!
Shoe Store Science: How To Find Your Best Shoe At Retail
Selecting and buying a new pair of running shoes at retail is no easy process. Not when you consider the vast number of choices on that big, impressive-looking shoe wall.
And then there’s the salesperson attending you. You’ve got to give him/her your close attention. After all, that’s why you came to retail. To get specialized help from a running expert.
For example, the salesperson might inspect the way you walk or jog around the floor, or even offer “gait analysis” on the store’s treadmill. That sounds mighty impressive.
But is it? That’s one of many questions raised by a new paper that analyzed shoe-purchasing behavior of 101 runners at 8 specialty running retailers in the Seattle area. It also contrasted differences between the prospective shoe buyers (you!) and the…
