ADVICE
OURAPPROACHTO
LIGHT WEIGHT SHOES
BY IRUNCOMPANY
A
s our third anniversary
approaches, we have been
fortunate to meet and fit
so many new runners into
their first pair of running shoes. We can
now proudly say, "we have survived the
tendency towards light weight training
shoes.” How did we do it? By defining
one philosophy: Running should be
enjoyable and achieved by working
on each individuals abilities to run. A
skillful runner can run in virtually any
shoe based on his ability. But for the rest
of us, functional running shoes help us
get from run to run, and in most cases,
keeps us injury free.
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These days many people are trying to
move into a much lighter pair of running
shoes because a new theory proposes
that "less shoe=more natural.” After
successfully fitting hundreds of people
and having close interaction with runners
who run more than 80 Z[\