We thought it’d be a fun idea to give you all a peek into what Shoe Metro employees are wearing themselves. You find out what shoes we’re wearing and why we chose those particular shoes. You can take these are our own personal recommendations in footwear.

First up, we have Marcus, one of the top employees in our Listing Dept., who just got a pair of K-Swiss Tubes running shoes. Marcus says: “I like the Tubes technology. They make the shoes real flexible and they’re lightweight too. They feel real good.”

K-Swiss Tubes Running Shoes in White/Silver

If you’d like to follow the lead of Marcus, Kenny Powers, Matt Cassel, and Jon “Bones” Jones, we carry plenty of K-Swiss Tubes running shoes available at www.shoemetro.com. We have men’s K-Swiss Tubes shoes in many colors including Blue, Silver, and Black. We also carry women’s K-Swiss Tubes shoes in Pink, White, and Black. Check out all of our K-Swiss Tubes shoes here.

Nike, in their infinite wisdom, have deemed it necessary to turn some of their Nike Free running shoes into instruments of hip-hop music. They enlisted a crew of hip-hop DJ’s and sound technicians in Japan and came up with what you see below. Maybe someday, we’ll be able to make our own music as we run and thus ween ourselves off our iPod addictions:

Welcome back to Weird Shoe Wednesdays! To make up for my absence last week, I’ve brought out some extra special, extra weird, extra eye-popping shoes for you this week. We all know the primary purpose of shoes is to help protect our feet and let us travel farther than if we were barefoot. Well, many different people have taken this transportation function of shoes to the next level. And so we have a plethora of shoe cars!

Of course, we have the classic high-heeled pump in a sort of motorized reverse tricycle design. In sexy red, no less. Red high heels? And cars? Men basically have no chance of resisting. Continue Reading…

We’ve hit 400 fans on our Shoe Metro Facebook page and, as promised, we’re giving away a pair of shoes!

We want to send our congratulations out to April, a loyal Shoe Metro customer and avid Facebook fan, who just won a free pair of Asics Gel-Strike running shoes from us! Hopefully, they’ll help her conquer her next marathon run. Good job!

Congrats to April!

Don’t forget to become a fan on Facebook. We definitely have more prizes in store for you if you do. =)

I can’t believe I’ve gone this long without mentioning how much the Winter Olympics have taken over my household. My family just cannot get enough double axels and triple toe flips and all that great figure skating stuff.

Photo: Vibram

At any rate, a quick search for “Olympics shoes” turned up these toe-loving running shoes from Vibram. Vibram actually develops a whole line of these shoes, called the FiveFingers shoes, that are made for sports such as ChiRunning, Pose Method Running, and Bouldering (yeah, I don’t know either). The FiveFingers Classic model features an extremely thin, lightweight, stretch polyamide fabric upper and a TC-1 rubber outsole. They’re supposed to take you back to the innocence of running around barefoot as a child, helping you feel more connected to spirit of the earth. Or something like that.

I don’t quite get it but I can see how it might make some sense. I hear that some Olympic runners from South Africa train barefoot and they’re consistent winners in running. At the very least, they’re better than Nike’s take on barefoot shoes.

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