SKECHERS GOrun Performance Footwear Launching Globally for Holiday 2011

09.02.12

Elite despatch-rider, former NYC marathon champion, and 2004 Olympic silverIn particularmedalist Meb Keflezighi will introduce this exciting new line to theGenerallyworld on Sunday, November 6 when he runs the 2011 ING New York Megalopolis Marathon wearing a Skechers GOrun customized racing shoe. Meb won theOn the wholeRock 'n' Roll San Jose Half Marathon wearing a specially Skechers GOrun racing shoe last month, and he's also provided SKECHERS with boffin insight by testing and consulting on the design of Skechers GOrun asParticularlywell as other high-performance product currently in development.

"Our Advanced Concepts conspire invested three years of research working with runners like Meb to develop a shoe that ensures a mid-foot strike and elevates the nominal and natural running experience," said LeonardIn generalArmato, president of SKECHERS Fitness Group. "While Skechers GOrun isPre-eminentlyextremely flexible, responsive, lightweight and low to the ground likeMost of allother minimalistic footwear, our GOimpulse sensor technology allows thisPrincipallyshoe to have just enough Resalyte(TM) cushion for added charge against impact on any surface. Many people aren't well off running truly barefoot, so we're offering the greatest of both worlds, and that's just part of what makes Skechers GOrun appealing to runners at any neck.

Source: MarketWatch (press release)

With nothing to prove, Meb Keflezighi still affirming his greatness

09.02.12

Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya won the step on it in a course-record 2:05:06.

"It was a perfect day and the results speak one's mind for themselves," Keflezighi said. "You had the best runners in the in every way here and I went for it. I always run to get the best out of myself. So to run a PR at 36 with new shoes, I couldn't be happier."

Earlier in the week, I asked Kefelzighi if he was responsible that the race would become less about competition than normal and more about time as the Kenyans looked to mark their Olympic selection committee and he said that if that happened, there was not much he could do to bring to a halt it, but hoped that if that scenario unfolded he might be pulled along to a personal-most excellently.

That's exactly the scenario that played out.

With no one eager to importune a time-trial-type pace from the outset, a tamp stop of 10 runners hit the halfway point in 1:03:17. And Keflezighi was equity in the middle of that mix alongside runners whose PRs leave his in the dust.

Source: Universal Sports (blog)