s2/e11 How to Buy Running Shoes with Hollie Sick (@fueledbylolz)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
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🗓️ 31 March 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever walked into a running store and been intimidated and overwhelmed? Do you want to learn more about running shoes? Hollie Sick (@fueledbylolz) joins the show to talk all about how to buy running shoes and her experience working in run specialty for a decade!
👟What we mean when we say you should get "fitted" for a running shoe
👟What to expect when you go to a running store
👟"Arch support"
👟Do you need to "break in" your running shoes?
👟Shoe sizes & widths
👟Rotating shoes
👟Carbon plate shoes and other shoe technology/trends
👟General terminology
👟and more!
Hollie Sick has been running for 12 years. She has worked in run specialty for 8 + years and probably fit over 1000 people for shoes. She has seen the rise of minimalist shoes, then maximalist, and now carbon plated. You can find her on social media as fueledbylolz and blogging www.fueledbylolz.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm Elizabeth, a marathoner, running coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:08.2 | When I became a new runner at the age of 29, I had so many questions, but it felt like I was on my |
| 0:14.5 | own to figure all of the answers. So now I'm here to answer all your running questions to help make you a better, |
| 0:21.4 | smarter, |
| 0:22.9 | faster runner. |
| 0:26.6 | There's no question too simple and no topic too complex. |
| 0:27.7 | So let's get started. |
| 0:34.3 | My guest this week is Holly Sick, otherwise known as Fuelled by Lulls on the many spaces of the internet. |
| 0:35.0 | She has been blogging at Fueled by Lulls for over a decade |
| 0:38.8 | about running and being a runner and race recaps and gear reviews and actually have been following |
| 0:43.6 | Holly for a while, like before I even ever thought that coaching and doing what I do today was |
| 0:48.4 | an option, which it totally is. So this has been great. I've been wanting to talk to her for a while. |
| 0:53.8 | This conversation is going to be everything you ever. I've been wanting to talk to her for a while. This conversation |
| 0:54.7 | is going to be everything you ever wanted to know about going to a running shoe store and getting |
| 0:59.1 | fitted for a pair of shoes. And we chit chat about shoes in general. If you are scared of your |
| 1:04.4 | local running store, don't be and listen to this episode. Holly, welcome to the show. I'm excited to |
| 1:10.2 | have you here. Thank you. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm excited to be here. So before we teach everybody how they can find the perfect shoes for them, |
| 1:17.8 | tell us about yourself. How did you become a runner and start your blog and end up where you are today? |
| 1:24.0 | So I'm 31 now, 32 in July, but I live in the Mojave Desert. So I have blogged through like |
| 1:32.7 | five different states, but I started running when I was a sophomore in college. I was a |
| 1:38.4 | competitive swimmer. And I swam for like 15 years. But if you're a swimmer or if you're not, you know, swimming is like the most boring sport. Like you're staring at the bottom of the pool. Like it's very |
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