Brian Metzler

Kicksology (eBook, ePUB)

The Hype, Science, Culture & Cool of Running Shoes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Kicksology is your all-access pass into the fascinating, colorful world of running shoesand what makes up a perfect pair of kicks. Sports journalist and veteran shoe tester Brian Metzler takes runners and kicksologists deep inside the $10 billion dollar running shoe industry with a behind-the-curtain look at what makes iconic running shoe brands tick. Kicksology follows a shoe from inspiration to store shelf to show how innovative ideas evolve into industry-wide trends and fads. Metzler tours shoe labs where scientists advance our understanding of shoes and running mechanics as well as the domestic and overseas shoe factories where the world's favorite kicks are assembled. A dedicated shoe nerd and running junkie, Metzler shares his love of great shoes in this fascinating look at the intersections of shoe culture and history, science and storytelling, intel from the innovators with on-the-ground insight from top runners. Kicksology is filled with information as entertaining as it is surprising, tapping into the passion runners have for their kicks and feeding their curiosity about what makes a great shoe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781948006088
• Artikelnr.: 57889722

Autorenporträt

Susan Lacke

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Running Is for Crazy People
1 Oh My God, I'm Friends with a Crazy Person
2 When the Shit Hit the Fan
3 The Anti-Diet Success Story
4 Anyone Can Do an Ironman?
5 Shifting
6 Ironman Is Hard
7 Very Dumb Things
8 Anyone Can Do an Ironman (No, Really: Anyone)
9 A Test of Relationship Fitness
10 Squeezing the Lemmon
11 Well, That's One Way to Win an Argument
12 My Money's on the Underdog
13 Wasted
14 Life As I Know It
15 Sunday Mornings
16 David & Goliath
17 Life's Too Short to Go So Fucking Slow
18 Prayers & Weed
19 You Will Do This
20 Into the Light
21 Your Mountain Is Waiting
22 What Hurts the Most
23 He's Gone
24 Above All
25 The New Normal
26 There's a Bike in Those Trees
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
About the Author