Going With The Flow

But the air quality was so nice this morning. At least you got in a good workout.

I know, I was regretting my decision as soon as I stepped on the treadmill this morning!

That pie chart is a thing of beauty!

Everytime I start to lose faith in the intelligence of humans, they come back and surprise me.

What the heck is a Skora?

Wow, Saucony has quiet the lead and Sketchers has made quite the progress over the last two years. I personally believe it's because of Allie's two victorious marathons she's ran in them. I know that's why I decided to buy them, for realz. I should blog her that, huh. Annnnyway, glad to see you got a run in. Hope your body is being nice to you today:)

One more thing from me, I can't believe Nike is ranked where it's at! I thought they were the "best" at everything with leading, innovative technology. Hummm...that's changed everything I have ever known about running up to this point;) I'm bored today.

Nike still sells more running shoes than pretty much everyone else combined. But I'd guess the majority of their sales aren't even for people who are running in the shoes.

Jake, that's a very good point...assuming you are talking about the every day "wear-ers" wearers? Whatever+, they keep their shoes quite a bit longer (like 3+ years!) and therefore buy less frequently. I know a lot of the nurses at work wear them, but don't use them for running. Is that what you are referring to?

Partly. And also that the kind of person who is going to be responding to a poll on RunBlogger is someone who gives a lot of thought to their footwear choices. So I think it would be fair to say that poll represents the "intelligent" running footwear consumer... not the "I'll just buy whatever Nikes (which is the only brand I've ever heard of) I can get for cheap" type of consumer.

Altra > Nike :)

http://bit.ly/1czoCFV > pearl izumi

I can see why Pearl Izumi is at the 2% mark. Wait, in case they ever sponsor me someday, let me rephrase that... What an inventive boot!

Nothing is as fly as these: http://goo.gl/c6pbJZ

So fresh!

Very interesting poll. Before last year when I ran for Pearl Izumi and this year for Brooks, I only bought Saucony, Brooks, Asics, and an occasional Mizuno or Adidas. But honestly it was mostly Asics. I am shocked Asics is so low.

I've never cared for Nike; then again they don't really care to make a good stability shoe so I guess it's mutual.

I tried Skechers just recently as they were a potential sponsor for me in 2014 and sent me some to try out. But, they also don't care to make a stability shoe period. So they wreaked some havoc on my feet.

Final thought is Pearl Izumi shouldn't get that bad of a rap. They've come a long ways with their shoes. I actually like their trainers quite a bit (remember I'm no longer under contract with them and get nothing out of promoting that brand anymore). Pearl Izumi would be ahead of New Balance, Nike, Skechers, Mizuno, Adidas, and most certainly Altra (I haven't tried the others in front of PI). But, Saucony, Brooks, and Asics certainly beat Pearl Izumi.

Here's a poll Utahrunning.com had on their site in 2011 that shows what local runners voted for at that time if you are interested in how Utah runners compare with the runblogger poll:

http://blog.utahrunning.com/running-shoe-poll/

Joe - those LA Gears are fresh. And yes, "fresh" is the appropriate word. I worked at a sporting goods store in high school and college, we had a tent sale every summer where some old classics would get pulled out of the storage shed. It was like finding treasure when we would find some LA Gear Light-ups. Those stayed internal and never made it out to the tables for sale.

So the Utah Running poll shows that 12% of people locally prefer shoes made by a company that specializes in baseball bats and gloves?!?! :-)