EP 445: Kicksology: They Hype, Science, Culture & Cool of Running Shoes
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
What shoe did you run your first trail run in? What shoe do you currently pine for? We all love our shoes and probably have an unhealthy collection of shoes. Brian Metzler, a running shoe geek for his entire life, joins The Nation to talk about SHOES....Oh the glorious shoes. Over his life he has run over 75,000 miles and tested more than 1500 pairs. As founding editor and associate publisher of Trail Runner Magazine and contributor at many other running magazines, he has a unique view of the history of shoes. He finally wrote a book about shoes. The history of shoes, why we are emotionally attached to them, their evolution, injury, and what we can expect in the future.
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| 0:00.0 | Pathprojects.com, you know it's you are a five on a beauty scale, if you're on a five |
| 0:07.9 | and you want to go to a seven, it's all about what you put on your body. |
| 0:11.6 | Pathproject. |
| 0:12.6 | And what I choose is the Pyrenees, that hooded, wonderful everyday wear stuff, I find myself |
| 0:19.4 | putting path on more for everyday wear than I do on the trail and you know I love it |
| 0:23.9 | on the trail. |
| 0:24.9 | I don't think I've seen you in the last probably three or four weeks without your Pyrenees |
| 0:28.7 | hoodie. |
| 0:29.7 | That's how you watch it and we have Scott Bailey on the line with us with the founder |
| 0:36.2 | of Pathprojects. |
| 0:37.2 | Scott, how do you keep doing this? |
| 0:38.9 | Making people look better. |
| 0:39.9 | It's a tough job, but it's something that we love to do. |
| 0:45.7 | I mean, we set out to make great running products first and foremost and we want to make |
| 0:51.9 | sure that you can load everywhere on it and always want to load everywhere, but that's |
| 0:56.2 | really our goal. |
| 0:57.3 | So often you think about shorts and bass liners when you think Pathprojects, but they're |
| 1:01.0 | much, much more than that. |
| 1:02.5 | There are shirts and their Pyrenees hooded jacket and hat. |
| 1:09.8 | And hat, thank you. |
| 1:11.8 | The buff. |
| 1:12.8 | I was pointing at my head. |
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