Shoes, Glorious Shoes!
Trail Runner Nation
Trail Runner Nation
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Recently, Scott had a friend ask him in a text, "what kind of running shoes should I buy?"
Wow! how do you answer that question with a short reply text? One of the subjects that can monopolize a LONG training run or a ultra race is about shoes. We all like to talk about them. We all have our opinions and preferences. And the stories.....we can recall races from years ago and vividly remember which shoe we ran in. Some of us die a little when a manufacture discontinues or modifies our favorite shoes. Who isn't guilty of going to the store and buying 5-6 pair of your favorites before they are gone?
We get the unique opportunity to talk to Steven Shorter, a shoe designer for Altra Running. He talks to us about how he became a shoe designer, the process of developing a new shoe, why shoes are always changing, some trends in running footwear...opening the curtain and giving us a sneak peak to some of the new Altra models.
Make sure you listen to this podcast on a tempo run, because you might find your HR elevate a little.
Our Podcast with Golden Harper, Altra Running founder.
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| 0:00.0 | We just finished Western States 100 and we talked in our last podcast to Jackie Merritt's |
| 0:12.9 | seventh place, Finisher F7, and she talked about how tailwind nutrition was integral in |
| 0:20.3 | her success at Western States. |
| 0:22.5 | There was a lot of adversity out there. |
| 0:24.4 | I mean, a lot of people with the heat and the snow and the humidity, everything was |
| 0:29.4 | soaring at those runners, but she relied on a stable, reliable source of fuel. |
| 0:35.4 | And you don't want to take and throw more variables into a crazy day like it was at Western |
| 0:41.4 | States. |
| 0:42.4 | So if you want to avoid getbombs and you want to stay upright on your feet, go to tailwindnutrition.com. |
| 0:51.5 | Aftershocks, bone conduction technology, I was just up at Forest Hill talking to some |
| 0:58.2 | fellow runners and Scott, you could have had your your buds on and talk to them because |
| 1:03.4 | this is the way you stay open to your environment. |
| 1:05.8 | But we were just sitting there around talking, watching runners go by and they said, hey, what |
| 1:10.1 | kind of headphones do you use? |
| 1:11.6 | And I said, oh, do they really do they really say that? |
| 1:13.8 | They actually said, you're not making this up? |
| 1:15.3 | I'm not. |
| 1:16.3 | Okay. |
| 1:17.3 | And I said, because it sounds staged. |
| 1:18.3 | I said, hang on just a minute. |
| 1:19.3 | I ran over to my truck and I pulled out my aftershocks, trex titanium and I said, you |
| 1:23.3 | got to try this. |
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