About
Foundations Footwear and Founder Bill Stone
In 1993 an aspiring triathlete, Bill Stone, took a job at one
of the original Fleet Feet running stores in his hometown of
Pleasanton, California. It was a perfect job involving working
with people who had the same interests and spare time to finish
college homework in between customers. Also, through being a
team member on the Fleet Feet Racing Team he got to train with
some of the craziest and coolest people around which got him
started into racing Ironman triathlons and running events of
all distances.
In the beginning Bill helped and coached a
few regular customers, but over the years the number has turned
into thousands. Thousands of athletes with a thousand different
reasons for doing what they do and a thousand reasons standing
in the way of doing what they love. Trying to solve all those
training barriers for others as well as his own, he found
that athletes of all levels get injured or drop out by not
possessing all of the following 6 qualities—joy for the sport,
training plan, core strength, muscle balance and flexibility,
proper equipment and most of all good biomechanics.
After years of helping athletes with the first
five qualities and working with gurus like the late world-renowned
podiatrist Dr. Bill Olsen in San Francisco and Paul Carrozza,
owner of RunTex in Austin Texas, he was ready to start the
study of pedorthics. In 2000, Bill studied at the nation’s
premier pedorthic program and passed his board’s certification
test to become a Board Certified Pedorthist. This turned his
customers into “patients” and could now work with doctors
solving biomechanical and other lower extremity injuries.
Hundreds of patients later and opportunities
to work with some of the world’s best elite athletes, Foundations
Footwear was born. By aligning the best equipment, doctors,
therapists and coaches, Foundations Footwear offers solutions
to any kind of barrier an athlete may encounter.
Bill
lives for spending free time with his wife and business partner,
5 year-old-son, 2 year-old-daughter and 4 year-old-Staffordshire
Bull Terrier. The family plays very hard BMX racing, motocross
riding, going to Lifetime Fitness South Austin and getting
out into anything else that Mother Nature has to offer. Bill’s
athletic goal is to one day run the Western States 100 mile
Endurance Run in the California Sierras.
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Services and products
• Complete foot examinations and gait analysis
• Custom functional and
accommodative orthotic
insoles using the latest
state-of-the-art techniques
and materials*
• Shoe modifications*
• On-site or outcall appointments available
• Networked with the best
physicians and specialists
• Fast turn-around time
*some services and products
dispensed through prescription.
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