Steve Hoag's Marathon Sports

What: Steve Hoag's Marathon Sports (Running Store)
Where: 2312 W 50th St, Minneapolis
Rating: 8
Non-Quantifiable Rating: Shoe Savants

OK, if anyone from Marathon Sports sees this, please know that you changed my life. I am hell-bent on buying from independent running stores, but I spent years and years buying every brand of running shoe on the market and suffering from every running injury known to man.
In a moment of sheer genius, I went to Marathon Sports where they made me actually get my butt on a treadmill and watched me run, and told me I was buying the wrong kind of shoes. I whined but I listened, and three years later I'm on my 9th pair of the same exact shoe (and the only reason I have gone through so many is because they were soooo right on on the type I needed that I now run 50-60 miles a week, injury-free, and I am on my 10th full marathon so I keep putting 500 miles on the shoes and having to buy new ones!!)

I love you, Marathon Sports. Love, love, love. Love, love. And one more love.