The Atlanta Track Club proudly stands as the second largest
running organization in the United States with more than 26,000 members. The
Track Club hosts over 30 races a year, including the world’s largest 10K with
65,000 participants. These numbers in light of the Sneakers exhibit, which was
recently at the High Museum of Art, led me to think about the number of
athletic shoes purchased. In the process, I learned athletic shoes have crossed
over to the realm of casual wear and thus sales have increased yearly for over
15 years.
I haven’t tracked down exact numbers for units of athletic
shoes sold or runners in GA, however, the southeastern region has over 7
million runners. This includes 8 states. Meanwhile
Some 45.1 million pairs of shoes were sold to support an
over 70 BILLION dollar athletic shoe industry in U.S. I saw two numbers for the
average shoe price, one at $66 and the other at $88.
That is a terrific amount of people spending a fair amount
of money on athletic shoes not to actually be running, walking or working out in
the footwear.
Spend Money Wisely. Run.
Tom
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