Last reviewed: 2026-05-30

It’s been nearly seven years since the last post went up on Runner’s Choice. That’s a long gap, and pretending it didn’t happen isn’t an honest way to start the next chapter. This is the short update on what’s been going on and what’s coming.

What happened

Runner’s Choice was started as a place for hands-on running shoe and gear reviews. After 2019, the site quietly stopped publishing. The writers who built the original archive moved on to other projects, and the site sat untouched. The archive remained online, but nothing new was added, and over time the older reviews aged out of usefulness.

In 2026, the running shoe market looks substantially different than it did in 2019. Carbon-plated daily trainers exist as a category. Hoka is mainstream. Brooks, Saucony, and Nike have all overhauled their flagship lines multiple times over. Almost every individual shoe review on this site is now describing a model that’s been discontinued, superseded, or substantially changed.

So rather than leave the archive as a static museum of 2018 running gear, we’re restarting the site.

What that means

Three changes, in order.

First, every existing review on the site is being audited for accuracy. Posts that describe shoes still in production with substantially the same characteristics will be marked with a “Last reviewed” date and a note about what has and hasn’t changed. Posts that describe shoes long discontinued will be either archived or rewritten around the current successor model.

Second, new reviews are going to mean someone actually ran in the shoes. Logged miles. Real surfaces. Real notes on fit, ride, durability after 200 miles. Not assembled-from-other-websites listicles.

Third, the review format itself is being rebuilt. Each new shoe review will include: total miles logged in the shoe before the review went up, the surfaces those miles were on, the runner’s foot type and history, and original photos of the actual pair of shoes (not stock photos). Where applicable, race results in the shoe get linked. Where we find a flaw (fit issue, durability concern, ride change after 200 miles), it gets written down honestly.

What to expect

A small, slow-building catalog of shoe reviews where every entry was written by someone with skin in the game. Visible dates on everything. Honest notes about what isn’t tested yet. A publishing cadence that’s modest by design. Quality over speed.

If you’ve been a runner long enough to remember the original Runner’s Choice and have specific shoes, brands, or topics you’d like covered, the contact page is open. The first wave of new content is being planned around what readers actually want to know about, not what an SEO tool says to write about.

From the editorial team at Runner’s Choice.