Is this the best trail shoe of all time? A visit with the creators of Speedland

Today we’re joined by our special guests Dave Dombrow and Kevin Fallon, the creators and founders of Speedland. A unique trail shoe with the high end components with a unique running experience.

Dave Dombrow
Executive Creative Director / Co-founder / Entrepreneur Dave Dombrow is currently consulting. teaching and launching a new hyper performance trail brand called Speedland. Mr. Dombrow has a passion for Athletic Performance and is constantly looking to
challenge the status quo and progress the industry. Mr. Dombrow has over 20 years of experience including positions at Under Armour, Nike, GBMI, Puma and Salomon. Most recently Mr. Dombrow served as Chief Design Officer at Under Armour where he oversaw all Design / Design Strategy. Previously, he was Performance Creative Director at Puma, held various Design roles at GBMI and was a member of the Basketball Footwear Design Team at Nike. His introduction to Footwear Design began while
interning at Salomon in Boulder, Colorado Notable Accomplishments: Throughout the last 20 years, Mr. Dombrow has worked on many great teams, been featured in publications and received various Design / Innovation Awards from
Red Dot, Runner's World, Outside, Nike, and Competitor. Additionally, Mr. Dombrow helped grow Under Armour business
from approx 750 million to approx 5 billion during his tenure. Mr. Dombrow is originally from San Diego where he was often found drawing and developed his love for gear and all things performance. He attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina but ultimately followed his passion for Desian and araduated with
Honors from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, two kids, cat and dog. You can usually find him spending time with his Family, obsessing Footwear, or out on a Trail.


Kevin Fallon has spent 26 years within the footwear industry, working for such brands as Nike, Puma and Under Armour before co-founding the footwear brand Speedland.  Kevin is a problem solver to his core, blurring the lines between engineering and design throughout his career.  With over 20 design and utility patents to his name, as well as several design awards, Kevin is a footwear professional dedicated to making technical performance products for elite athletes.

 Kevin started his career at Nike in 1997 as a soccer footwear designer.  There he learned the attention to detail necessary to create footwear that is an athlete’s main piece of equipment.  During his nearly 10 years at Nike, he played an integral part of the massive surge for this key category, driving growth from #4 in soccer market share to becoming #1 globally.  From Nike, Kevin went to Germany to work for Puma where he lead the soccer, motorsports, and kids footwear design teams, and designed product for the 2012 World Cup.  Under Armour was Kevin’s next career move, taking him from Nürnberg, Germany to Baltimore, MD for the unique opportunity to turn an apparel company into a footwear brand. Hired as a Director, and  later promoted to Vice President of Footwear Innovation, Kevin lead a 20-person team across three countries from 2010 to 2019.  During this time, UA footwear grew from $80m to nearly a $1.5 billion business.

 Kevin is a native of Minnesota, where he spent summers canoeing the Boundary Waters of northern MN, the Quetico Pr