About Jess
I work at Brooks in the fun and energetic marketing department in support of our athlete events. I ran at the University of Washington and now run marathons and just daily for fun. I love to eat pizza or waffles after my runs. My favorite Brooks shoe is the Launch!
You have heard from the trail runner and the triathlete. For the next installment of our How I Got Into Running series, I would like to share how I went from being an all-star school athlete to simply running for pure enjoyment. I hope you find inspiration in my story and are encouraged to share your own! [...]
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Brooks is exceptionally proud to be the footwear sponsor for three-time Ironman® World Champion Chrissie Wellington . (The above picture shows Chrissie in her racing shoe of choice, the Brooks T6 .) Don’t miss the opportunity to meet Chrissie in person in Chicago. She’ll be fresh off racing this year’s Quelle Challenge Roth , where [...]
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Last year, Brooks introduced the first-ever biodegradable running shoe midsole: BioMoGo, How’s it work? Adding a non-toxic, natural additive to our MoGo midsole compound encourages anaerobic microbes to munch away once it hits the landfill. Traditional midsoles can last up to 1,000 years in a landfill — but BioMoGo breaks down 50 times faster, biodegrading [...]
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We’re excited to unveil the latest update to Brooks’ #1 shoe – the Adrenaline GTS 9! We update the Adrenaline GTS every year, and this version is the best yet. If you enjoyed the GTS 8, 7 (or 6, 5, 4…), then you’ll be thrilled with this one. What makes this shoe great? We call [...]
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Recently added to the Brooks neutral shoe lineup: the Defyance 2. The shoe is an update to 2008′s Defyance, which (despite a love-it-or-hate-it lime-green men’s color scheme) won the Runner’s World Editor’s Choice Award in 2008. Now some inside scoop for the shoe geeks: The Defyance can be thought of as the the “neutral cousin” [...]
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Remember to hydrate, and get your run in before eating all that candy. Happy Halloween! Visit Flotrack For More Videos
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Just one more day to Halloween – now get off the computer (or treadmill)…. and go RUN OUTSIDE! Visit Flotrack For More Videos
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The Brooks Ghost was spotted over at Seattle running hotspot Green Lake causing some mischief! Here’s the first little clip – I’ll post one more each day this week… Happy Halloween!
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Beijing- Day 7 Marathon Day!! Today was the Men’s Olympic Marathon and team USA ran well. The young Kenyan stole the show by breaking the Olympic record by three minutes on a warm day here in Beijing. Ritz, Hall, and Sell moved up throughout the race to end up 9th, 10th, and 22nd overall. Sell [...]
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June 12, 2012
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