Who are we?

Run For Your Life is a locally owned business founded in 1989. Our mission is to ensure that each customer is matched to the proper shoe for their needs. We offer a highly trained staff that is here to serve you. Run For Your Life carries shoes from the top brands in the industry, and the latest in apparel, nutrition, and accessories. Any question you have about exercising, we can answer!

What do we do?

We offer unmatched customer service and individualized attention. Our Staff invites you to take off your shoes, roll up your pants and get up on a treadmill. You might work up a sweat but watching you go through the full gait cycle ensures that we can select the proper shoe for your foot. Also, our Staff wants to know about your aches and injuries, your goals and challenges. All of this information is essential to getting a proper fit. In addition, Run For Your Life works closely with medical experts in the area so that we can best understand how to help our customers overcome injuries and all of the aches and pains that come with running. We help you better understand nutrition for long runs, how to stop blisters and skin irritation, stretches to help prevent injuries, and how to use a heart rate monitor to boost performance.

Reaching your goals

We want to help you find your love of fitness. Running classes are offered for beginner, intermediate and advanced runners, each one carefully crafted by an individual coach to meet the needs of the participants. Run For Your Life is also a proud partner of USA Fit, a nationwide half marathon and marathon training program with individual coaches for different projected finishing times. Whether you plan to race, run, walk or crawl across a finish line or use running as a way to get in shape, we are here to offer advice so you will accomplish your goal.

Creating Community

Run For Your Life is responsible for creating and managing dozens of road and trail races a year, including Charlotte’s premier road race, The Thunder Road Marathon. These family friendly events bring together thousands of runners and walkers who contribute to worthy causes through their registration fees. Our events benefit many non-profit organizations including Right Moves For Youth, the YMCA, Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation, Hands on Charlotte, Crisis Assistance Ministries and the American Lung Association. Additionally, offering these events gives you goals for your training

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