Top 2020 Running Shoes from Bryan Smith with The Running Room
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
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🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Is there a BEST SHOE for you? Bryan Smith is the area manager for Running Room, an independent running store, and he is here with us today to discuss the top 2020 running shoes from his perspective.
Shoes are probably the most important, and exciting, piece of a runner's equipment. The ongoing search for the best shoe for each of us is a challenge and an opportunity to improve our running. Better times, less injury, less pain, and terrain specific characteristics are some of what we are looking for in the PERFECT SHOE.
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| 0:00.0 | On today's Run to the Top Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | It's been working for you, stay with it. |
| 0:08.0 | But I also like to recommend that people be curious, |
| 0:12.0 | especially those folks that are doing more running or are |
| 0:14.4 | training for longer distances, then they may not yet be engaging in or practicing having a couple |
| 0:21.1 | of shoe models within their sort of weekly repertoire. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Run to the Top Podcast from Runners Connect, |
| 0:29.0 | where it's all about learning from the best and most inspiring minds in the sport. |
| 0:35.0 | Together, we can train a smarter, healthier, and faster running community. |
| 0:41.0 | Now here's your host, Stephanie Kay Atwood. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome, this is Stephanie K Atwood, Boston Marathon Qualifier Coach and host for the Run to the Top |
| 0:52.0 | Podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Shoes are probably the most important piece of a runner's equipment. |
| 0:58.0 | The ongoing search for the best shoe for each of us is a challenge and an opportunity to improve our running. |
| 1:04.4 | Better times, less injury, less pain, and terrain specific characteristics are some of what we are |
| 1:10.5 | looking for in the perfect shoe. Is there a best shoe for you? |
| 1:15.0 | Brian Smith is the area manager for running room, an independent running store, |
| 1:20.0 | and he is here with me today to discuss the top 2020 running shoes from his |
| 1:26.3 | perspective. Brian has been running since he joined cross-country in high school but |
| 1:31.4 | really came to love the sport as an adult. country and |
| 1:35.0 | like high school, like so many of us, |
| 1:40.0 | and like so many of us became hooked. |
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