About Diana Riggs
Brooks copywriter and running fool.
Get excited Neutral runners: the Glycerin, Ghost, and Summon have all received updates that will blow your mind. Similar to the feeling I have from the amazing dessert I recently devoured at West Seattle’s finest bakery, Bakery Nouveau (if you are local, please go immediately and eat the Summer Dream dessert). All this tastiness gave [...]
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Did you know that Brooks corporate headquarters is haunted? We have three resident ghosts and a fourth has been spotted. Don’t worry though; these aren’t the head-spinning, creepy whispering variety, only iterations of our most popular neutral category shoes, the Ghost. Friendly to a variety of runners across the neutral spectrum, the Ghost delivers generous [...]
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Now available for hungry road racers everywhere: the Brooks T6 Racer and Racer ST 4. Simply put, these two shoes define performance for racing flats on all competitive levels. At the United States’ 2008 Men’s and Women’s Marathon Olympic Trials, roughly 30% of the athletes in the men’s race and 25% of the finishers in [...]
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I get a lot of questions from runners who want to give Brooks a try, and are looking for the “closest shoe” to some other model they’ve been running in. As in: I’ve been running in the [Asics Kayano/New Balance 1063/Nike Structure Triax/etc...], so which Brooks running shoe should I try? Of course no two [...]
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How’d we forget to post this? The guys at Flotrack came out to Brooks Headquarters back in November and filmed a little tour of the office!
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Congratulations to Canada’s Newmarket Huskies, the age 15 and under Ontario Cross-Country Champions! The team also went on to come in second at the Canadian Junior Cross-Country Championshiops last weekend. Way to go! One of the team parents sent us the photo, and reported that “It made it real easy for parents to pick them [...]
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A big shout-out goes to Brooks I.D. member Rob Heppell. Rob just achieved his goal of running all 5 World Marathon Majors in one year! Rob was doubly excited (and we were extra impressed) that he managed to finish each of the 5 major marathons (London, Boston, Berlin, Chicago and New York) in under 4 [...]
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Hey, Brooks fans: we’re psyched to announce the launch of the new Brooks Run Happy Group! Working with our friends over at Seattle-based fitness community site Sweat365, we’ve created the Brooks Run Happy Group as a place where you can connect with other runners and Brooks fans, blog about what makes you Run Happy, easily [...]
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CNBC has posted some pictures of the upcoming Brooks VIP Porta Potty, along with a short interview with head Brooks marketing guy, Dave Larson.
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June 16, 2011
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