SportsShoes Blog

Sportsshoes.com are pleased to announce that we are supporting an exciting new running event taking place in Bradford in October. The Bradford City Run’ is designed for both runners and ‘first-striders’ alike to give you your own personal challenge within a festival atmosphere. Elite racers will relish the challenge (along with the prize fund) whilst fun-runners can use the event to build up to bigger challenges ahead. The unique nature of the course – using two distinct 5mile loops north and south from the city centre – means that entrants can opt to do just one this year and then go further next time. Choose from doing the 10mile race, 5mile run or a 4 person relay (over 10miles). For the younger ones there is a 2mile junior fun run. It will be held over closed roads from the city centre and out to two of the showcase parks, Lister Park and Bowling Park, on Sunday 18th October 2009. A full entertainment programme will run alongside in Centenary Square. For more information and to enter visit bradfordcityrun.com.

The race will be starting outside the Sportsshoes Unlimited shop in Bradford and will be attended by some of our staff, who will also be participating in the race! It should be a great day out for all ages and you will have the chance to test your running skills against some of the best runners in the city as well as some of our very own highly trained staff!

We hope to see loads of you there …

And good luck from the whole team here at Sportsshoes.com.

As fresh as fresh can be - just through the door we have some new mizuno running shoe deals.

Mizuno are a technical sports company. Known within the trade as being incredibly product focused. They tend to invest in imporoving the product rather than in marketing - which I guess ultimately benefits us runners.

Their major running technology is the mizuno wave plate. This sits alone in the market place as the only technology that deals with the twin issues of cushioning and stability at the same time.

Read about mizuno’s history

The shoes we have on clearance are their most popular ’runners’ and we’ve got them in mens and womens:

mizuno wave rider 11 - a favourite high mileage shoe of neutral runners - £50

mizuno wave inspire 4 - popular high mileage support shoe -£55

mizuno wave elixir 3  - £45 - lighter weight performance running trainer

Interested in more mizuno technology?

Take a look at this wave rider japanese ad we’ve found

Visit our mizuno technology glossary

Take a look at our mizuno specialist store 

Happy Wednesday everyone

Just wanted to tell you about some fantastic new women’s running clothing deals we have at the moment. Basically, we have the ron hill aspiration range on at less than half price!

This range is currently flying out of our running shop.

The range uses lightweight technical fabrics throughout and was designed with the serious runner in mind - but at these prices the range it is affordable to all the casual plodders out there!

Take a look - there are some really top buys

Ron Hill Lady Aspiration Short, Ron Hill Lady aspiration vest, Ron Hill lady aspiration lycra short , Ron hill lady aspiration long sleeved t-shirt, ron hill aspiration windlite running jacket, ron hill fitness capri pants