Sole Mate

Offering everything you need to get out running and to compete in events from 5km races to Ultra Marathons and everything in between.

We provide running shoes for both road and trail / fell running, clothing, apparel, accessories such as sunglasses, headphones, poles, heart rate monitors, head torches and so much more!

We offer some in-store services such as Gait Analysis using cutting edge technology, providing you with various data points on your running gait, helping the customer find the perfect running shoe for their style, and offering advice on how to improve any weak links in the kinetic chain. Other services include Sports Bra Fitting, on site physiotherapy, mental health therapy, and a weekly social run club.

We have an on site coffee shop which forms a great community feel in store, changing rooms to try on product before you buy, and an event space where brands present new products, run product test evenings, and do tech talks around their products for the customers.

Our mission is “to ignite the power of human belief through a happier and healthier lifestyle”. We believe that movement, exercise and a healthy lifestyle is key to happiness and in helping with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.

We have a huge number of industry leading shoe brands such as Hoka, Brooks, Asics, Scott, True Motion, Altra, Mizuno, New Balance, Nnormal, Salomon and On Running. A large range of clothing brands such as Pressio, OMM, Montane, Welsh Athletics, Runderwear, Ronhill, Hilly and Moggans.

If it’s mandatory race kit list items you’re after, we have fully waterproof, taped seam items in stock, as well as nutrition for fuelling the race, with brands such as Hammer Nutrition, Tailwind, Rawvelo, OTE, Mountain Fuel, Clif, available to fill your hydration vests from OMM, Salomon, Silva and Ronhill.

We’ve even got you covered if you get the dreaded chafe and need some anti-chafe products. We’ve tried to think of everything so you don’t have to!