Running shoes search and the Saucony Virratas

In my opinion, running shoes are by far the most important piece of equipment to running.  It's not fun to run in cotton shirts and shorts, but even that is preferable to running in dri-fit clothing and the wrong shoes.

I'm not a shoe girl.  I'm not one of those people who owns a closet of hundreds of dollars worth of shoes.  I wear my $16 flip flops in the summer, and my $35 on sale Merrell in the fall.  The most I've ever spent on a pair of shoes was $120 on a pair of black boots.  When it comes to running shoes though, I've always been more willing to drop the chunk of change.  I imagine that running shoes have grown to be a huge industry.  New designs and models come out often and with the recent trend towards running, companies are tapping into that industry.  Barry, who these days shows up to races with more than one pair of running shoes, reminds me of the days when he'd go shoe shopping and there would be two choices: racing shoes or training shoes.