A properly fitting running shoe can make or break your run. Leaving the foot without support or cushioning, an old running shoe can contribute to serious foot injuries! Flattened padding and weakened structure leave your feet improperly supported and the impact will take its toll. Check out our running shoe buying guide and see how to get the air back into your running sails.

Keeping Up with Technology

Today's runners benefit from a lighter, more supportive running shoe equaling faster times, more pleasurable runs, fewer injuries and seriously cool styling! A traditional running shoe offers arch and heel support, impact resistance, cushioning, reliable traction and sturdy lightweight construction. Today's running shoe has developed into a lean mean running facilitating machine!

With technological advances coming at light speed, the running shoe has more bells and whistles now than ever before. Even the tried and true classic, 'Nike Men's Air Pegasus+ 25 Running Shoe' is newly reinvented for today's discerning runner. With an embedded full-length 'Air Sole' unit for extra comfort and a decoupled crash pad for supreme cush, the 'Air Pegasus+ 25' running shoe still offers plenty of spring in its step.

It's all about the Springs

Spring are a major factor in today's running shoe and the Nike 'Shox NZ' has four springs in the heel to help you along. Shock absorption helps with a smooth ride, but even better, these 'shox' convert impact into returned energy making each step a stamina builder for longer distance running. The Adidas 'Men's Rava Microbounce' running shoe employs BOUNCE' technology for optimized comfort and energy return. The use of adiPRENE' at the forefoot increases efficiency as well as maintaining propulsion. Energy transference from shock to propulsion is the hot shot of running shoe engineering.

Hitting the Trails

With the price of gym membership and air quality in question, more people are enjoying trail running in the great outdoors. A trail running shoe needs to be built for exposure to the elements and traction for multiple terrains. Allow our running shoe buying guide to show you the way down the path of comfort.

Running on trails calls for a running shoe built to handle multiple terrains and a myriad of road hazards beyond potholes and gum! The 'New Balance 790' is a lightweight trail running shoe with a forefoot of embedded Rock Stop' providing protection from sharp debris and rocks on the trail. Lafuma's 'Sky Race OT Trail Running Shoe' features a 'Twin Lace' system with separate toggles for the lower and upper part of the shoe enabling a near custom fit. The 'Sky Race OT' trail running shoe boasts breathable waterproof membranes for the sloppiest of trails, and a gusseted tongue to keep out debris. A trail running shoe offers all the engineering of a street shoe with the added sure-footedness for the great outdoors.

Whether you're running the trails or pounding the pavement, our running shoe buying guide offers support from the ground up.

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