Fleet Feet Sports - A Rochester Best

Fleet Feet Sports is a full service fitness store that sells clothing, accessories, all things running related, and of course sneakers! By full service I mean that instead of you going in there and picking out the prettiest running shoe, they will put you into a pair, put you on a treadmill, and watch a video of your feet when you're running to see what type of shoe is going to fit you best. Once they know this, they bring out several pairs of sneakers, you put them on, run around the store outside if you wish, and pick the best fitting ones. This was pretty crazy to me since I grew up picking out the coolest looking sneakers and not caring how they fit, but let me tell you, my feet are super happy now.

Other than selling things, they host several races a year, have group workouts a few times a week, have workshops and speakers come in about training for triathlons, sports injuries, nutrition, girl nights, pretty much anything you could desire. Fleet Feet Sports is located around the country: Fleet Feet Locations, but when I go on and on about how cool they are, I'm talking about my local one: Fleet Feet Rochester ...so I have no idea if all the other ones have as much going on or not but you should check it out.

Every race they host is so much fun and they have loud music cranking for you when you cross the finish line. The owners Boots and Ellen also seem very laid back and that they care about making people happy by adding new things. In the past couple of years they have added some really fun races during the week for cheap. They are called the Dirt Cheap Trail Series and consist of a trail run once a month for 6 months at different parks around Rochester... they're my favorite. I mean how else are you going to get a 4-7 mile trail run done in the middle of the week with 100 other crazy people? They also have a new series this year called the Beach Cheap Aquathalon which is a combination of swimming and running which I haven't gotten a chance to check out.

In conclusion, check out the location link I put above and make sure to see if you have a Fleet Feet Sports around you...you won't regret it :).