Do better shoes help you run faster?
Live MintModern competitive running entered a new era in 2016, when Nike began distributing a prototype trainer to elite runners. The new shoes were designed to look like Nike’s top publicly available model, the Zoom Streak 6, but the soles featured a revolutionary new design. In 2019 the New York Times analysed real-world marathon times to measure the speed gains attributable to Nike’s Vaporfly or Next%—the leading shoes at the time. Using data from Strava, a fitness app where users post details of their workouts, they found that runners wearing super shoes completed races 4-5% faster than those in average trainers, even after controlling for ability and training. In Mr Andersen’s opinion, super shoes should be broken in a little: he suggests around 20-50km of pre-race use to reduce the risk of blisters and improve race-day performance.
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