2007 Winter Outdoor Retailer Show

the 2007 winter outdoor retailer show ended yesterday. i'm glad it's over. i also think my buddy steve should quit his high paying job at yahoo and come run one of these companies... the outdoor industry needs you buddy!

product highlights:

• montrail's new nitrous shoe
• black diamonds whole new ski line
• nuun's new kona cola flavor (it's got 40mg of caffeine!!)
  
• teko corn socks - totally renewable and recyclable resource. these guys don't do anything unless it's eco friendly.
  

so cyril and i are walking by the teko booth and bam!, there i am.. a big poster on their booth of me running (the same photo the trioba guys put on their site this year). when you are a lowly endurance athlete you appreciate this kind of thing, and i had no idea they were doing it. thanks jim, owen and the whole teko sock family - still making the best socks on the planet and the best socks for the planet!

slc has no snow and a wicked inversion holding record amounts of smog in the city. i got one run in while i was there and it gave me a terrible soar throat...gross.