K. Goucher has signed with Skechers as her new sponsor

The Go-Run is a flexible shoe with a 4mm drop and 6.9 ounces. How are they different than any other shoe coming out now? There are so many 4mm drop shoes coming out lately from the "big brands."

My only question about these shoes is what is the heel to toe dimensions? Is it traditional like an 18/14 Kinvara or is it something weird like a 16 heel, 18, middle, 14 forefoot, making the mid foot beefed up like a Shape Up shoe?

I think the 16/18/12 sounds about right, based on looking at the shoe in the video. It's a thin midsole for sure. Definitely not a traditional 24+mm heel.

I believe the weird heel to midfoot rise and midfoot to toe drop is to further encourage midfoot striking. Not sure though.

Also not sure what i think about all this skechers running stuff, but they must have a lot of money

I am traveling from NY to Salt Lake City. I had a layover in Detroit and just saw the Goucher Family (Adam, Kara and baby) in the airport. I said congrats to Adam on qualifying for the trials. He smiled and said thanks. I have no idea if they were coming or going or just on a layover, like myself.

Does anyone know where Skechers corporate offices are located?

Salt Lake City is home wrote:

I am traveling from NY to Salt Lake City. I had a layover in Detroit and just saw the Goucher Family (Adam, Kara and baby) in the airport. I said congrats to Adam on qualifying for the trials. He smiled and said thanks. I have no idea if they were coming or going or just on a layover, like myself.

Does anyone know where Skechers corporate offices are located?

They are making an appearance at a road race in Denver this weekend.

"It was extremely disappointing, but the next morning I just got on the plane with Adam and came home and saw Colt," said Goucher, who will appear Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at the expo for the Rock 'n' Roll Denver Marathon, representing one of her sponsors.

Read more: Kara Goucher sets sights on Olympic marathon bid - The Denver Post

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Troll Hard wrote:

You should have quoted me so they couldn't completely delete my post WTF!

I'm learning quickly to copy all of my posts so they can be reposted as needed. Now I'm going to have to copy entire threads.

I have no idea why your post was deleted in the first place. You posted 2009 revenues and income for a publicly held company. I cannot understand how that gets deleted immediately, but we can't seem to get rid of dozens of comments about Palestine, Z1onism, and horrible racist threads.

One reason -- They don't want to piss off possible advertisers. People must read the racist threads so they saty up.

Skechers Headquarters is: 228 Manhattan Beach Blvd. in Manhattan Beach, CA 90266

http://ecorporateoffices.com/SkechersUSAInc-2160

A little more insight about things http://gogorunning.com/interview-with-meb/

Weldon asked me what I thought of the Millrose move to 168St.

I'll answer here.

History lesson first James J. Connelly won the first Wanamaker Mile in 1926 with a 4:17.2 clocking.

Skechers should buy the Millrose Games. I know The Armory Foundation and NYRR want to leverage the Wanamaker mile and have no interest in the other events.

OK so they keep the Wanamaker Mens Mile and Womans Metric Mile brand and spinoff the rest of the Millrose mee off giving Skechers an entry platform into the sport. They can buy the 11 lap track. I believe USAT&F owns in now. It's useless now since USAT&F refused to support the Armory version of the Millrose so it's a $ win for USAT&F every buck earned helps to offset the Logan settlement money.

Skechers can pack it in a semi and do a barnstorming tour of 10 Greatest North American Malls. Set up the track in the parking lots and putting on " Pro Mini- Meets" with Meb and Kara and other downslope stars and let Brooke Burke lead the hobbyjoggers in "Tone your Butt" classes.

Bring back 11 lap running as a spinoff sport,

Too bad the 11 lap banks are too steep to do Roller Derby then Skechers could buy the 'skate-sneaker' concept from Air-Coasters and have a two sport meet.

I sent it off too quick and had Connolly where my name should be.Tom Hyland

Did I hear him correctly? Did he say the flats (GoRun) where modified? It sure sounded like it. In other words the flats and probably what he really trains in are modified (bulky center taken out?).

Goucher is just getting over a nagging hip injury. There are three months to the Olympic Trials. Wouldn't it be a bit imprudent now to be trying a completely new brand of training and racing shoes?

From the Meb video that was just linked, we have confirmation of what I would expect, which is the athletes shoes are modified to the point where they are unrecognizable from the retail shoe. I would even go so far as to guess that their athletes could bring in a competitor shoe that works for them and have it copied down to the stitch in the company's upper, last, and sole design.

I also don't think shoes lead to as many injuries as people might want to believe. Especially for someone used to very high training loads already. The body is more adaptable than that.

Let's think about this. Meb got dumped by Nike after the NYC win had faded into a subpar Boston due to injuries and not much since then. Meb is managed by his brother. Skechers obviously picked up Meb on a pretty big discount from what he would have wanted post silver medal and post NYC win. Plus, the sad truth is that people on Madison Avenue are not too keen on a guy with an unpronounceable last name.

By contrast, Kara is in her prime, a virtual lock for the US 2012 Olympic team and extremely marketable. She got passed over for the recent Nike women's advertisement with Hope Solo and friends because she was pregnant (and just doesn't do a good slut look like what that ad campaign was going for--too doe eyed, girl next door). Skechers already has Brooke Burke as the face of their running shoes. Kara Goucher isn't going to do anything for them that Brooke Burke can't do.

And Skechers is still Skechers. They aren't even on the shelf in the local running specialty stores. They are still a mall brand and are no where even close to being taken seriously as a running shoe.

What is a "proprietary lightweight, injection-molded compound"? Additionally, I'd like to know what "independent circular sensors" are and how exactly they give my feet "360° responsive flexibility".

I'd love to work in marketing for Skechers and sit around bullshitting all day. Must be nice!

Who gives a toss

Precious Roy wrote:

And Skechers is still Skechers. They aren't even on the shelf in the local running specialty stores. They are still a mall brand and are no where even close to being taken seriously as a running shoe.

Which is why it would be perfect for many of the diehard Kara fans. You know, the ones that said "I don't care if she didn't run that fast of a time - she just had a BABY X months ago! She is awesome to be so competitive and be a MOM at the same time!!!"

Kids are also a huge marketing segment for them. If you go on their twitter and facebook feeds, there are a number of pictures of celebrities and their kids wearing Skechers. Kara and Meb both have that angle going as well.

Nike, Sub 4, Tiger, Puma, etc...all went after some prototype runner when they ventured into the "running" market. Good for whoever joins them and gets paid. Obviously, she now has the main responsibiblity to provide for her family, and if this happens to be true she has the ability to create something. Not unlike when Tiger Woods dropped Titleist and develpoed the entire Nike golf line....