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Runners: Clicky Poll

I have done my share of running shoe shopping over the years, and always find myself frustrated.  It seeems like trail shoes always come in the best colors, and my (road) shoes are always silvery white with some lame accent color.  I want badass black shoes with some other badass color in there too!

Does anyone else care about shoe color?  Give the choice of these, what would you choose?  Same shoe, different colors.

image "Cocatoo/Silver"

image"Silver/Cerise"

image"Pavement/Aquarius"

 

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Re: Runners: Clicky Poll

  • I love the third ones! I just wish the blue on the third ones was more like the blue on the first ones.
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  • The black ones are BADASS!

    I'm totally hoping that when I need new shoes, there will be a recently-discontinued-and-therefore-on-sale black version. I'm so tired of white/gray with one accent color.

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  • The third ones are sweet! I totally care about shoe color. It makes me want to wear them, which makes me want to run! I bought my last shoes over the second choice because of color even though they were $20 more and equally as comfortable Embarrassed
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  • I like the third ones the best. 

    and I do care about how my shoes look.  but if they only have the shoe I want in one color I usually buy it.  unless it was a truly horrific color.

    I'm currently rocking some stupid looking running shoes that I only bought because they were the only color of the shoe in stock.  case in point: some dude at the grocery store told me that my shoes were 'too cute to be wearing around in this weather'.  this weather=some slush from the wintry mix the night before.

  • i need some awesome black shoes like that
  • FYI: Black shoes make you look slow and heavy. 

    They draw your eye to your feet and make your feet look like heavy bricks. 

    Hugs,

    Find neon shoes instead. 

  • <--- Has all 3 pairs. Loves all 3 equally.

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  • I love the blue and black ones! They are awesome!

     

    Now I'm off to see if my shoes have any more fun colors available....

  • I voted for the third ones.

    And yes, the look of the shoe is important to me. DH made fun of me when I bougth new shoes recently.  They gave me three pairs to try on.  I tried on the ones I thought were the prettiest, they felt good, I bought them.  Didn't even try on the other two pairs!

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  • I like the pretty green/turquoise in the first ones.
  • I wish my shoes came in some badass colors too.  But Brooks doesn't cater to us with narrow feet.  We get one color choice and it's always boring white w/ blue.
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  • I always pick the darkest color combo available in the shoe I'm buying - doesn't show wear, mud, blood, etc. nearly as much.
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  • The color does matter to me, but only b/c when I order new shoes I want them in a different color than the previous pair so I don't get them mixed up. Sure sign I don't run outside much!
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  • i wish i had pretty running shoes :)  it does matter!
  • color does matter!!!

    just wish i had a choice--have big gorilla feet requiring wide with so always get stuck with the lame white/silver color combo. my feet/legs/knees thank me but i always feel like i'm sporting some kind of orthopedic shoe. 

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  • imagesbaz:

    color does matter!!!

    just wish i had a choice--have big gorilla feet requiring wide with so always get stuck with the lame white/silver color combo. my feet/legs/knees thank me but i always feel like i'm sporting some kind of orthopedic shoe. 

    Gorilla feet!  My brother has wide, hairy feet and he calls them "Fred Flintstone feet."

  • HA!

    maybe i can borrow your brother's shoes...does he have anything in the not-orthopedic-white genre? 

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  • I have been wearing the SAME shoe for 12 years. I went to get refitted after this past pg. and was hoping to do something a little different. I must have tried on 10 shoes and yep, I picked the old faithful I had been wearing forever. I was so salty that I was guying the same shoe again, I got BRIGHT pink.  The entire shoe is pink and I love them. I vote the last pair!
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  • I have #3, so that gets my vote!
  • I like the pink ones but clearly I'm in the minority! ;-)
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  • I've always gone for the silver/blue look. But my new running shoes are black/blue/green and I feel totally BA in them! I'm in love with them.

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  • imagegumby22c:

    I've always gone for the silver/blue look. But my new running shoes are black/blue/green and I feel totally BA in them! I'm in love with them.

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    LOVE those!  I have the third ones above, but I like yours a lot better.  So BA!

  • imageKatiesCats:
    imagegumby22c:

    I've always gone for the silver/blue look. But my new running shoes are black/blue/green and I feel totally BA in them! I'm in love with them.

     http://a2.zassets.com/images/z/1/4/9/1496995-p-LARGE_SEARCH.jpg

    LOVE those!  I have the third ones above, but I like yours a lot better.  So BA!

    yeah, those are frigging awesome.  i gotta get me a pair like that next time around! 

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    imageKatiesCats:
    imagegumby22c:

    I've always gone for the silver/blue look. But my new running shoes are black/blue/green and I feel totally BA in them! I'm in love with them.

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    LOVE those!  I have the third ones above, but I like yours a lot better.  So BA!

    yeah, those are frigging awesome.  i gotta get me a pair like that next time around! 

    They are the Adidas Oscillation brand. I tried several different shoes on before deciding on these. Not gonna lie, the colors are what partially made me pick them. But now that I've gotten a few good runs in them, I am completely satisfied with my pick. : )

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  • imageerincassidy06:
    I bought my last shoes over the second choice because of color even though they were $20 more and equally as comfortable Embarrassed

    i did the same exact thing.  i even ordered them online so i could get the color i wanted, which wasn't available in stores!

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