Ward’s holy-smokes experience was common in the early days of super shoes. Also common was the belief that the carbon-fiber ...

Subjects wore either the $250 Nike ZoomX Vaporfly Next% 2, which represented super shoes, or the $90 ASICS Hyper Speed, which served as the control shoe representing a more traditional racing flat.

The man who helped bring carbon fiber to running shoes and converted recycled PET bottles to Olympic uniforms is getting ...

Cushioning is important, and the super shoe has it in abundance ... regardless of their speed, ability and technique — a task taken on by the German researchers in the name of better transparency.

She’s on the slower side of who the shoes claim to benefit, but she’s found that her $230 New Balance Super Comp Elite have helped her not to tire as easily when she’s worn them for speed ...

Following extensive research, ASICS has added a new addition to its speed line ... carbon-plated distance racing shoes available on the market today. This new super-light option in the METASPEED ...

When sports scientists measure “running economy” (the main measure of success for carbon plate super shoes), they're not talking directly about speed. So when anyone claims carbon plate super ...

With that kind of investment, I don’t just reserve these for race day. Not only do super shoes increase your speed, they allow for better efficiency, a 2019 study in Sports Medicine found — wh ...

And I say, ‘Well, super shoes didn’t exist yet ... high-stack shoes to a traditional racing flat (the Asics Hyper Speed). Five of the seven were statistically better than the Hyper Speed ...

Modern midsoles—made of what we’ll call super foams—are why we’re in a golden age of running shoes.