Monday April 18, 2005
I Thought I Was a “Shoe-in”
Friday’s Edhat contest was to guess the most popular brand of shoe worn by people participating in Saturday’s Santa Barbara 10 Miler. It seems that they were originally going to count EVERYONE’S shoes, but wound up only counting the top 50 finishers.
Regardless, I figured that I had this contest in the bag because Steve won the race and he told me what he thought would be the most popular shoe type. He believed that Adidas and Nike would be the top brand, so I was a bit dismayed to look around on Saturday and see a bunch of Asics and New Balance. Steve was even more dismayed as I don’t believe he considers New Balance to be a real running shoe. Of course, one guy ran barefoot, which I would think hurts more than wearing a bad running shoe.
I was amused to read that “Ed” had a few minutes tacked on to his time last year because he got stopped by a train. This year, the same thing happened to Steve and Todd (the second place finisher). It’s a good thing they both got caught, or else it wouldn’t exactly have been the fairest of races.
Anyway, for the contest, there were quite a few people who guessed correctly that Asics was the most popular shoe, but I was not one of them. So much for inside connections! If only they had asked who we thought would win the race…that would’ve been easy! ;)
Steve is fired. Asics has made the most kickass *line* of running shoes for as long as I’ve been running (15 years). If nothing else, they’re always super lightweight, even if you get the cheapo ones. With Nike’s (my shoe of choice), you have to pay buttloads to get a good shoe.
2 | Posted by: Dre on April 20, 2005 @ 7:27 AM
