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Hoser, eh
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 11:57AM - in reply to Coming Back Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Puma Soft, c.1976-7. Bright yellow with canvas uppers and a black sort of felt Puma marking on it. Incredibly featureless and basic compared to anything now.
Brian
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 12:16PM - in reply to 81runner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I found a pair of Brooks Conquest from the mid-80s in a store in Wise, VA in the mid 2000s. The glue was all yellow. If they had been my size I would have bought them.

I also found a pair of Nike American Eagles in a thrift store in Des Moines, IA a few years ago. They were rather worn.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I8f0U51hXHo/Tj6s85VjDeI/AAAAAAAAIws/9gUt6oSWMMY/s1600/Nike%2BAmerican%2BEagle%2BPrototype.jpg
DVaughn
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 12:18PM - in reply to Hoser, eh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Nike Nylon Cortez 1975
swedishbasteve
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 12:20PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Adam C
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 1:30PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
jaybird
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 1:45PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
adidas Countries (with FELT, not plastic, stripes)
Facts Too
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 1:54PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Adidas Cross Country - white leather uppers with green leather trim. They weighed a ton when they were wet!!!
Hodgie-san
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 2:57PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
poiuy
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 3:31PM - in reply to FireBoy Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
FireBoy wrote:

The Internationalist and others had a few versions. The 'blue shoe' that was early 80's and only around for 1 year may have been the Bermuda. Mesh front toe box, snug fit. I remember running in the Internationalist then actually buying 4-5 pair EACH of the Terra T/C and Zoom Elite...the royal blue with yellow Swoosh. I remember stocking up on these 2 shoes and getting them for about $220 for like 9-10 pair of shoes from a 1-800 warehouse in the back of RunnersWorld mag. Now $220 will get you 2 pair of shoes...and thats if you get a 15% discount.


Bermuda, that was it. I had a pair or two of the Zoom Elites as well. I can still remember getting my first pair of Eagle flats ('80?). Awesome racing shoe.
Track Fan 1979
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 3:35PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Well I had a pair of Thom Mccan's that were blk yellow and white. My first real pair were some Nike's with a gum bottom sole and blue nylon uppers, white swoosh. My first real, real running show was the Saucony Jazz, got them in the fall of 1981.
aloha warrior
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 8:22PM - in reply to runasfastasucanforaslongasucan Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
runasfastasucanforaslongasucan wrote:

NIKE Kenya Red-1972. Frickin a doodle, I wish I still had them. Switched to Adidas SL72's for a couple years, then back to NIKE's when the Waffle Trainer/LDV came out and been with them pretty much since. Still have a pair of Tailwinds sitting in a box, SMU Elite's(Baby Blue/Hot Pick swoosh) and prototype steeplechase shoe.


http://nikeinc.com/news/reintroducing-the-nike-tailwind
Is this the Tailwind you have? I got a pair in the Fall of 1979 & that is still one of my all-time favorites. I believe it is the first Nike to use an air sole.
aloha warrior
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 8:27PM - in reply to Brian Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Brian wrote:

I found a pair of Brooks Conquest from the mid-80s in a store in Wise, VA in the mid 2000s. The glue was all yellow. If they had been my size I would have bought them.

I also found a pair of Nike American Eagles in a thrift store in Des Moines, IA a few years ago. They were rather worn.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I8f0U51hXHo/Tj6s85VjDeI/AAAAAAAAIws/9gUt6oSWMMY/s1600/Nike%2BAmerican%2BEagle%2BPrototype.jpg

American Eagle was the best racing flat Nike ever made.
Shiprook
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 9:10PM - in reply to Hoser, eh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Starting in 1975: Tiger Corsair - Tiger Munich - Tiger Montreal - Brooks America - Nike Waffle Trainers.

Wow. I'm getting old!
aloha warrior
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 9:48PM - in reply to Lemon Harangue Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
The second pair of spikes I owned (1974) was the adidas "racer', a black kangaroo skin shoe (that was great leather, strong and light) with pink stripes. See the pic with Mike Boit 72 800m.

http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/tag/dave-wottle/
The Cougar
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 9:58PM - in reply to Hoser, eh Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Hoser, eh wrote:

Puma Soft, c.1976-7. Bright yellow with canvas uppers and a black sort of felt Puma marking on it. Incredibly featureless and basic compared to anything now.


You think? I believe Puma just came out w/a similar shoe recently...the Puma FAAS 300 w/canvas uppers? Granted, the colors are more appealing...
Go muddier, go longer
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 10:02PM - in reply to The Cougar Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Brooks Villanova, 80's
Glenn McCarthy
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 11:19PM - in reply to Go muddier, go longer Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Adidas Antelope. I tried New Balance Trackster and the II. Waffle Sole and red saddle shoe design. That was 1966. Also tried the Blue Ribbon Sports marathon for racing and theit training shoes. Good stuff in 1967-68
irunnike
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 11:36PM - in reply to PreRunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
1985 Nike Air Pegasus. Next year was Nike Terra. Never left Nike.
irunnike
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/3/2012 11:50PM - in reply to irunnike Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
Actually, Terra Trainers. I had to go back through all the posts. I saw Terra TC, and I knew they weren't TCs. When I saw the pic, old memories flooded back!http://www.arkamix.com/vintage-nike/running/nike-terra-trainer-1980-s
New England Runnah
RE: Your First Running Shoe 5/4/2012 3:44AM - in reply to rekrunner Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
That was mine too! Spring of '79 - green with bright green stripes and they got so darn heavy in the rain, which we had plenty of in East Texas. Think my father paid ~ $20 for them. I ran in them until I outgrew them a few years later.
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