Periodically when I get bored and need a break from what I am doing I often do one of several things. I could go over to amazon.com and read the 1-star reviews on books (it can be quite funny, especially if the book has it fan boys and seeing them attack the 1-star reviews with the whole gambit of logical and reasoning fallacies) or I could go and troll to bash some woo or I may sometimes head over to Google Trends and type in some keywords to see what is happening to the search engine popularity of those terms over time. Today, I headed over to Google Trends. I will just leave this here:
As the sales of minimalist running shoes have been languishing at around 0.3-0.5% of the run specialty market for a while now and with the above graph on what people are looking for in Google, runners have voted with their feet.
As always, I go where the evidence takes me until convinced otherwise ….
am no minimalist fan, but am pretty surprised we’re still getting so much interest in hoka from customers. it’s fluctuates between our #2 and #3 brand in the store.
someone once said humans are just novelty seeking primates.
so while hokas don’t appear to be going away any time soon, i do wonder what the next trend will be and how long until the fad does lose some steam.
Minimalist running shoes require a forefoot strike. Since less than 10% of runners naturally do so, there’s a limited market for said shoes.
Where are you getting that information from? Plenty of minimalist/barefoot runners heel strike.