Who'm ya kidding like shoes make a big difference for 98% of the people on this site or out plodding on the streets for more than 20 min at a time. You can shoes that do the job for that for under $50. Hell, I checked out Walmart the other day and they do have "athletic" shoes, including some Reebok's a brand I thought was dead, but their aimed primarily at mall walkers. Kohl's has decent Asics for about $52.
This.
It is not Hoka's yet - 2 years ago, only the most serious runners were wearing Hoka (as they were pretty difficult to find). Still today - Hoka's are being worn only by the fairly serious runners at all age groups (as a percentage of total sold).
Brooks is for the elite wanna be posers.
Newsflash. Unless you are making 100% of income thru running. You are a hobby jogger.
If you're any good and you've heard of the brand than it is probably not a true hobby jogger brand. Also any brand sold in running stores will occasionally be graced by someone who actually isn't a half bad runner. The only legit hobby jogger brand I can think of (i.e. a brand that is only worn by runners and yet not a single one could probably break 18:00 for a 5K nor 3:00 for a marathon) is the Nike x Undercover Gyakusou collaboration
http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/c/nikelab/gyakusou
New level of hobby jogger
All of the brands are for hobby joggers except the one I wear, which you probably wouldn't have heard of.
rhizomes wrote:
If you're any good and you've heard of the brand than it is probably not a true hobby jogger brand. Also any brand sold in running stores will occasionally be graced by someone who actually isn't a half bad runner. The only legit hobby jogger brand I can think of (i.e. a brand that is only worn by runners and yet not a single one could probably break 18:00 for a 5K nor 3:00 for a marathon) is the Nike x Undercover Gyakusou collaboration
http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/c/nikelab/gyakusouNew level of hobby jogger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZmXi3WT6Jk
Try again. I have a pair of the Gyakusou pants from a couple of years ago, and they're awesome. They're about halfway between tights and pants, and super warm. I only break them out when it gets into the teens.
Personally, I draw the line at lululemon.
I stand corrected then. BTW I pretty much only wear Gyakusou and only submitted those cut off times because I have yet to break them, haha.
I vote Hokas since all the ultra guys wear them, and only people who are untalented do ultras.
800 dude wrote:
[quote]rhizomes wrote:
If you're any good and you've heard of the brand than it is probably not a true hobby jogger brand
Try again. I have a pair of the Gyakusou pants from a couple of years ago, and they're awesome. They're about halfway between tights and pants, and super warm. I only break them out when it gets into the teens.
Personally, I draw the line at lululemon.
I got stuck behind a lovely behind wearing barely there black lululemons in a 10K on MLK Day in Little Rock. No PR that day, but didn't care. Schwing!
Walmart hasa Belmar brand running shoe for $10. Others include: Fubu (aptly enough), OP, Starter, Avia, Dr. Scholl's and my favorite: the Joe Jogger shoe for $13.88.
Probably work fine for most of the "joggers" that visit big blue.
Fitbit for sure. Now you can count walking to the workplace cafeteria as "exercise!" And you can feel really good about taking the stairs when you could have taken the elevator. Because obviously those magical 10,000 steps will make you look like those "fitspiration" fitness models you plaster all over your Pinterest account. No pain no gain am I right?!
Wester wrote:
What is the most hobby jogger brand?
Let's leave out Nike because it is the most popular and you can say that it is the most worn by hobby joggers.
More of, what brand exists just for hobby joggers?
You fixate on stupid bullshit. Why is that?
Earlier today we had a thread with a bunch of turds whining about the Boston marathon. Now on this one we have insecure tools complaining what other people wear to run.
Do you people have any semblance of a life? Why do you care so much about people that don't know you, and you don't know either?
What a funny thread, a bunch of hobby joggers talking about what other hobby joggers are wearing.
amxc wrote:
Earlier today we had a thread with a bunch of turds whining about the Boston marathon. Now on this one we have insecure tools complaining what other people wear to run.
Do you people have any semblance of a life? Why do you care so much about people that don't know you, and you don't know either?
You mad bro?
I call Nike as poser brand for posers.
Stop being so mad bro.
Mr. Doritos wrote:
Any brand which produces a fuel belt.
A few Olympic trials runners could have used one of those!
Oh how quickly we forget about Vibrams!
Also the answer to "what was the running fad to go away the quickest after getting popular?"
FLOWERBLOSSOM wrote:
shoe brand? or just brand in general..
I'll stick to brands that make shoes
TOP TIER HOBBY JOGGER
-Hoka
Mid Tier Hobby Jogger
--On running/Newton/ Zoot whatever other niche brand that nobody knows about except triathletes or ultra runners.
Low tier hobby jogger
-New balance
-Brooks
-Mizuno
-Asics
-Nike
-Yo mamma
What does this leave for elites then? Adidas, Saucony, and Reebok?
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