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January 2013
19-01-2013, 09:41 AM, (This post was last modified: 19-01-2013, 09:47 AM by Bierzo Baggie.)
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RE: January 2013
Brian closed down his shop about a year ago. In the present economic climate there was no way he could compete with big discount stores and the internet, even though his advice and expert attention was appreciated by an amazing range of runners, from pavement plodders to Olympic athletes. (He once sold a pair of Ron Hills to Jefferson Perez).

I’d bought all my trainers there for the last 10 years. Important milestone, eh Sweder?. I’d usually turn up early and spend the whole morning chatting. It felt like the running equivalent of a small Morroccan carpet shop but without the mint tea. Brian would get out 3 or 4 pairs that he thought would be suitable and let me run around the block! I’d always end up choosing the ones he’d quietly and subtly recommended in the first place.

A lot of us were gutted when we found out the shop had closed. It even made the local press (Diario de Vigo, one of Galicia’s most important daily papers).
http://blogs.lavozdegalicia.es/susanabas...-de-brian/

The last I heard was that Brian was teaching English somewhere in La Coruña. I’ll try and look him up next time I’m over there.

And two days after I finally plucked up the courage to go out and buy a pair of shoes all by myself I find out that they’re gonna rip my feet to threads! I fear that I will be lost without Riazor Blue Sad

(And it was RB who intoduced me to runningcommentary.net, to Mizuno Wave Harrier and to a little bar around the corner from the shop, it's name? "The Dog's Bollocks" I am massively in debt to the man...)
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Messages In This Thread
January 2013 - by Sweder - 01-01-2013, 02:21 AM
Janathon - by Sweder - 01-01-2013, 01:07 PM
RE: Janathon - by Bierzo Baggie - 06-01-2013, 11:34 AM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 06-01-2013, 10:27 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 08-01-2013, 07:08 PM
RE: January 2013 - by El Gordo - 08-01-2013, 07:39 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 08-01-2013, 08:47 PM
RE: January 2013 - by El Gordo - 08-01-2013, 10:52 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 08-01-2013, 09:17 PM
RE: January 2013 - by The Beast of Bevendean - 13-01-2013, 09:05 AM
RE: January 2013 - by marathondan - 16-01-2013, 10:49 AM
Happy Anniversary To Me - by Sweder - 16-01-2013, 09:33 AM
RE: January 2013 - by marathondan - 16-01-2013, 10:46 AM
Horgen: An Unexpected Journey - by Sweder - 16-01-2013, 02:03 PM
RE: January 2013 - by El Gordo - 17-01-2013, 09:27 PM
RE: Horgen: An Unexpected Journey - by El Gordo - 18-01-2013, 10:53 PM
RE: Horgen: An Unexpected Journey - by Sweder - 18-01-2013, 11:20 PM
RE: January 2013 - by El Gordo - 18-01-2013, 07:32 AM
Snow Dope - by Sweder - 18-01-2013, 11:22 AM
RE: Snow Dope - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 18-01-2013, 12:12 PM
RE: Snow Dope - by Mid Life Crisis Marathon Man - 18-01-2013, 12:14 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Bierzo Baggie - 19-01-2013, 09:41 AM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 19-01-2013, 10:28 AM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 19-01-2013, 12:17 PM
RE: January 2013 - by El Gordo - 19-01-2013, 12:51 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Bierzo Baggie - 19-01-2013, 04:05 PM
Go-slow Snow Show - by Sweder - 20-01-2013, 04:44 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 20-01-2013, 08:39 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 20-01-2013, 08:49 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Bierzo Baggie - 20-01-2013, 09:43 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 20-01-2013, 09:59 PM
RE: January 2013 - by Bierzo Baggie - 20-01-2013, 10:08 PM
Snow Place Like Home - by Sweder - 22-01-2013, 07:23 PM
Need for Speed - by Sweder - 24-01-2013, 11:11 AM
RE: Need for Speed - by Antonio247 - 24-01-2013, 03:21 PM
RE: January 2013 - by The Beast of Bevendean - 25-01-2013, 11:49 AM
RE: January 2013 - by Sweder - 26-01-2013, 06:51 AM
Almeria Medio Maraton 2013 - by Sweder - 29-01-2013, 04:08 PM
RE: Almeria Medio Maraton 2013 - by Antonio247 - 29-01-2013, 09:06 PM
Homeward Bound - by Sweder - 31-01-2013, 05:16 PM

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