Going Back to the Future...in Footwear

What does Back to the Future have to do with fitness? Not much. Or really not anything beyond skateboards, chases and 1950s bicycles unless there's a connection I'm missing or I could do more than display a new, highly buzzed about Nike shoe release. But I'm going out on a limb here and I suppose the only honest thing to do is blame growing up in the 1980s, my grandfather and my shoe obsession. So here it goes...


"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
"1.21 gigawatts!? 1.21 gigawatts1?"
"What the hell is a gigawatt?"
"Power laces, alright!"

I can recite various parts to all three Back to the Future movies--my sister can too, and get the two of us together and we can probably still talk out most of the movies. In fifth grade, I wrote and illustrated a book (one of those assignments that we did for English) with a time traveling Corvette. My dream car was a DeLorean and when the neighbor up the street had one parked in his driveway, I totally wanted it. Any time one part or all of the trilogy is on TV (thank you VH1 for making it one of your classics), I'm tuning in. And when I most recently watched Part II last month, I couldn't help but wonder if we'd ever see any of these so-called futuristic items for 2015 since the real 2015 is just around the corner (boy, did that seem a long way off when I was 10). But, I digress.