Most shoe stores hand you a box and a receipt. 605 Running Company Downtown hands you a gait analysis and an honest opinion about whether that shoe is actually going to hold up through a half marathon in January.
They stock running shoes, technical apparel, and gear built for people who actually log miles — not just own the aesthetic. Expect shoe fittings that involve watching you move, not just measuring your foot. Socks matter here. So does the difference between a training shoe and a race shoe. They serve everyone from first-5K runners to the kind of people who have opinions about lactate threshold.
Sioux Falls runners keep coming back because the staff knows the local routes, the local weather, and exactly what falls apart when both get brutal. That's not something an algorithm recommends. It's earned.