By Elizabeth Jenkins These pieces of compression apparel are unlike any other compression apparel we have seen. With compression becoming more and more a part of endurance training, there has been a lot of innovation. We have seen socks, calf sleeves, arm sleeves, shorts, pants, but never have we seen a product so transitional from…

  By Anna Ratliff   Trail running is a way for me to escape the traffic, let my mind relax, and enjoy the mountains at my doorstep. Summer is especially a great time to trail run because trails frequently offer an escape from the heat. Some of my most liberating runs have been during rainstorms,…

By Lisa Menninger  Have you seen that Nike ad that is running during the Olympics?  It’s an adolescent boy, carrying some extra weight on his frame, running into the camera shot.  The voiceover talks about how we define greatness. Every time we push past what we thought we could do and take another step in…

By Elizabeth Jenkins Not everyone needs to run in the heat of the day, but some people need to train for events which happen in the heat.  Some people are forced to run in the heat purely because that’s when they have time to run. This might sound silly, but the only way to get…

We at Salt Lake Running Company are proud to announce that we are officially carrying a new running apparel brand called Janji. This brand has just barely launched, and is much more than just technical running shorts and tops. I have the awesome responsibility to pick out all of the clothes for our stores. It…

By Adam Pritchard   Yeah, I know…he’s a cool looking dude. Bob Dylan probably wasn’t a runner, though. How do I know this? Well, apart from his chain-smoking habit, I have other evidence. I have some pretty styling Wayfarer sunglasses (Like the hater blockers pictured on Mr. Dylan’s skull above) I have taken those bad…