This is not a story. Nike allows their elites to pretty much mix and match any features they want on a shoe. It's like a Build-A-Bear Workshop for runners.
This is not a story. Nike allows their elites to pretty much mix and match any features they want on a shoe. It's like a Build-A-Bear Workshop for runners.
FFF wrote:
Frank Shorter won the 1972 Olympic Marathon in the same shoes he wore a few days prior in the 10,000 meter.
The shoes no longer had a spike plate. This isn't rocket science. It's just shoes.
Shorter's were not out of the box shoes. Adidas made them only for him. You'll notice in both the 10 and the marathon, he's the only Adidas athlete wearing them. I remember (I really do) Erich Segal, who did the commentary for the race on ABC, and who was an English professor of Shorter's when he was at Yale, making a big deal of this. Good heaven's I'm getting old.
800 dude wrote:
This is not a story. Nike allows their elites to pretty much mix and match any features they want on a shoe. It's like a Build-A-Bear Workshop for runners.
"It's like a Build-A-Bear Workshop for runners"
lovely!
Agree.
I thought the idea of the Vaporfly was to bring the optimal cushioning and a track spike stiffness to a road shoe. It would be interesting to study it next to spikes but for now I think its benefits are questionable.
She’s a mom that heel strikes, why even bother with spikes?
typical LR poster wrote:
She’s a mom that heel strikes, why even bother with spikes?
What's wrong with heel striking? Get out of here with that pseudoscience born to run b.s..
Montesquieu wrote:
FFF wrote:
Frank Shorter won the 1972 Olympic Marathon in the same shoes he wore a few days prior in the 10,000 meter.
The shoes no longer had a spike plate. This isn't rocket science. It's just shoes.
Shorter's were not out of the box shoes. Adidas made them only for him. You'll notice in both the 10 and the marathon, he's the only Adidas athlete wearing them. I remember (I really do) Erich Segal, who did the commentary for the race on ABC, and who was an English professor of Shorter's when he was at Yale, making a big deal of this. Good heaven's I'm getting old.
I didn't say Shorter's shoes were commercially available. Though they sort of came out for a brief time after the fact as the Apollo (I think it was called that).
Tiger did the same thing, that after-the-fact, with Rodgers. Shorter was wearing the Ohbori, then Bill had shoes that were a bit different. Tiger issued them for a brief time as the BR Racer or something. The fashion shoe that's been around forever is a visual clone, but I haven't seen a BR Racer again since maybe 1977.
FFF wrote:
Montesquieu wrote:
Shorter's were not out of the box shoes. Adidas made them only for him. You'll notice in both the 10 and the marathon, he's the only Adidas athlete wearing them. I remember (I really do) Erich Segal, who did the commentary for the race on ABC, and who was an English professor of Shorter's when he was at Yale, making a big deal of this. Good heaven's I'm getting old.
I didn't say Shorter's shoes were commercially available. Though they sort of came out for a brief time after the fact as the Apollo (I think it was called that).
Tiger did the same thing, that after-the-fact, with Rodgers. Shorter was wearing the Ohbori, then Bill had shoes that were a bit different. Tiger issued them for a brief time as the BR Racer or something. The fashion shoe that's been around forever is a visual clone, but I haven't seen a BR Racer again since maybe 1977.
That's where the Onitsuka Tigers come from? I never knew that. I've always wanted a pair of those but can never find them. Love the look of those things