Running Insight

Mission At Running Insight, our goal is to support the running community—whether it's for sport or leisure. We aim to showcase the retailers and brands that empower countless individuals to lead healthier and more active lifestyles, both locally and globally. Purpose We provide essential industry updates year-round through our website, RunningInsight.com, and a bi-monthly digital magazine, Running Insight, which is designed to be engaging and easy to digest. Our featured articles cover a wide range of topics, including retailer highlights, business insights, product launches, trend analyses, and much more.

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Shoe Conversations

2 weeks ago | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

Nothing brings validation like a good Latin phrase. How about this one “audentes Fortuna iuvat”? It has a nice ring to it, and the translation is equally profound: “Fortune favors the brave.”There is much conversation about conservation, especially at this time of year as Earth Day is celebrated April 22. We all know that we only have one planet that is fit for running and that is the example we strive to set in our spheres of influence.
A Run With Sharon Barbano

2 months ago | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

One of the most critical roles in the success of running shoe brands is getting that brand’s message out clearly and completely. Communication won’t make a bad shoe good, but a lack of it can shoot down the success of a great shoe. Sharon Barbano is one of the best in the business in 2025 and Saucony is benefitting from her expertise as an effective communication professional.
TRE24: Best Feet Forward

Dec 5, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

A regular column I penned in the 1990’s was called Mostly Shoes. Appropriately, that same description could be applied to The Running Event 2024, held Nov. 19-21 in Austin, TX. More than any other piece of equipment, our daily runs are influenced by footwear. The result of our Marathon Dreams is directly affected by footwear — and footwear performance plays the most critical role in the success of our running goals and dreams. On that level, TRE24 had it all on the running shoe front.
More Pickles, Please

Oct 12, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Matt Crawford

With pickleball once again being featured at The Running Event in Austin, TX, next month, run specialty retailers need to dive a little deeper into the kitchen (that’s a pickleball term) and learn a little bit more about the fastest-growing sport in America. I am here to help. I recently bought a new pickleball paddle – a Six Zero Double Black Diamond. I spent more time online researching its attributes than I did for a recent purchase of a new car.
Retail Tech-cellence

Sep 16, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

Current technology in the run specialty landscape is a varied medley of stalwart and contemporary components. Your industry colleagues deploy a spectrum of scientific tools ranging from the trusty Brannock Device to fancy scanners that interpret, to a specific percentage, a foot’s degree of medial arch elongation. There’s some really cool stuff out there.
What’s on Your Plate?

Jun 7, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

There are a number of things that marathons around the world have in common — the distance, the refreshments and the shoes. While terrain and snacks may vary from race to race, the near uniformity of the shoes, at least in concept, has grown in both height and breadth — literally and figuratively.
Challenge Accepted

Apr 3, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

Running is elemental, an activity that reaches to people of all abilities. Fresh air, cardiovascular and muscular strengthening, mental clarity — each enhance our overall health. Of course the run specialty business, as advocates for improved quality of life and protection of the environment, is vitally interested in promoting health and fitness without drawbacks. So how do run specialty retailers get involved and respond to this challenge?
World-Class Juggler

Mar 1, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

It is easy to imagine that Brooks Running is a busy place and the woman at the center of the maelstrom is the right hand of CEO Jim Weber — chief of staff Tamara Hills. Her 20 years at the brand shows some staying power, and why not? Most of us would find a position at a major running brand a dream job.
Pedorthics and Run Specialty: Perfect Together

Jan 16, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Mark Sullivan

What do pedorthics and run retail have in common? Plenty, according to Bob Schwartz, a longtime specialty footwear retailer and head of the Pedorthic Footcare Association. Speaking at The Running Event in Austin, TX, last November,, Schwartz, the owner of Eneslow Footwear in New York City, outlined the linkage between pedorthics and the run retail business.
Balance of Power

Jan 3, 2024 | runninginsight.com | Cregg Weinmann

There is a condition known as equilibration, which is a restoration of balance or equilibrium. In the run specialty space, that means the current condition of technical running products has been unbalanced with the flood of technologies, materials and constructions that have impacted footwear over the past couple of seasons. But equilibrium is coming back. One benefit of the foam technologies, upper constructions and midsole geometries is their availability now to nearly all of the brands.