THE HARDEST THING about running during a lab test: I become a mouth breather. I’m hooked up to a computer via a tube clenched between my teeth. My nose is plugged with a pair of plastic blue pincers, ...

Super shoes make almost everyone faster. The combination of the shoes’ next-gen midsole foam, carbon fibre plate or other stiffening agent, and rockered geometry are known to improve running economy, ...

For most of their existence, super shoes have been sort of fungible. Sure, some have been better than others. But within their primary elements — a thick slab of next-gen midsole foam, a carbon-fibre ...

Back in the 1990s, Reebok attempted to make carbon-plated running shoes, but the Nike Vaporfly 4% brought this technology to a wider audience when it appeared in the 2016 Olympics. Promising a 4% ...

This just in: super shoes are super wasteful. Thanks to their advanced foams, which are designed for performance, not longevity, the dirty little secret is that they’ll thrive during a race, but not ...

Joel Fuller does not work for, consult, or own shares in any company or organisation that would benefit from this article. Joel has previously led research projects that have evaluated the effects of ...

If you’re like me, you get tired of constantly bending over to tie your shoe laces on your favorite kicks before heading out the door. So, in my ongoing quest to find footwear that’s both comfortable ...

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