KUOW‘s Ruby de Luna reported today on the growing popularity of running-related businesses, including Beth Baker‘s Running Evolution:
Beth Baker is a running coach. Rain or shine, Baker and her clients meet every Wednesday at Green Lake Park. Today they’re working on speed drills.
Baker: “All right? Skip, skip, skip.”
About a dozen adults, mostly women, bring their knees as high as they can as they skip.
Green Lake’s own Super Jock ‘n Jill (7210 E Green Lake Dr N) was also featured:
Chet James owns and operates one of the oldest running stores in the Northwest, Super Jock ‘n Jill. When his mom opened the store in 1975, it was one of the few stores in the country that specialized in running shoes and gear. James says it had a reputation as a geeky running store, a store for serious runners who were interested in beating their performance record. And back then there weren’t that many running events. So his mom organized an informal race, twice a week at Green Lake Park.
James: “On Sundays and Thursday afternoons she’d be out there with a stopwatch, watching 30 guys run as fast as they can and then she’d record and post them, so it was pretty much a fraternity track club at the time.”
You can listen to the entire show and read the transcript on kuow.org.
