Kara Goucher (eyeroll)

This week alone there have been threads about Kara Goucher, Desi Linden and Shannon Rowberry, all with the intent of attacking their personality, egos, motives and lack of knowledge. It's the type of behavior that make you guys so attractive to the supermodels

Makes sense to me intuitively. Not sure why any 12 year old would need carbon plated shoes. High school sure, but any athletics before that isn’t that serious, especially running.

Do streakflys count as super shoes?

Firstly, there's dozens of topics/ posts every week criticizing male figures on this board but.... that doesn't count?

Secondly Karen, excuse me Kara, has proven to be a melodramatic hypocrite many times [ see her recent defense of Wetmore despite accusations against him that were similar to some of the ones she and other female athletes made against Salazar who she thinks is the devil now. What happened to #believeallwomen/accusers ?] And it's very easy not to like her

She complains about other runners having an unfair advantage against her with Super Shoes but she doesn't bring up the unnecessary thyroid medication she was getting along with who knows what other supplements Salazar was giving her.

Supermodels usually date rich alpha male jerks like professional athletes CEOs or rappers. So..... I don't think how much of an ultra-feminist [ where apparently you can't criticize a woman] a dude is ranks very highly on their list of attractive qualities they are looking for. But ... great insight!

This is lame and pathetic. So now if a kid has expensive running shoes he should be shamed for trying to take advantage of his parents' wealth and should wear cheap crappy shoes instead to make the other less rich kids feel better about themselves and "even the playing field"? Seriously? Running is the cheapest sport in the world a pair of running shoes is going to break no one's Bank.

[Meanwhile the Somali immigrant will show up in 3-year-old worn out sneakers with holes and wipe the floor with the kid in the expensive Nikes so I wouldn't worry about it too much]

I actually like Kara Goucher for the record. Good commentator, loved watching her run, loved watching Adam run. I am a Colorado guy and Adam Goucher is the greatest runner in history, and I am excited to see how their kid does.

I was just annoyed by her hyperreactive pseudoscience response to super shoes and what appears from me to be her imposing her dislike of the new technology on her kid in the guise of being protective. Yes, reading into that a lot, but there really isn't any true evidence associating risk with these shoes -- if anything, the cushion prevents injury and overuse. I just think it's a silly justification for the supershoe vendetta.

Running is insanely high impact. The idea that 10mm of extra cushion is going to make your legs into noodles is stupid, and anyone that's had any calf/achilles injuries knows that doing actual strengthening exercises -- calf raises, heel drops, etc. -- is the way to strengthen that part of your body. Running is not a strengthening activity, guys. We need to come to grips with that.

The track community is so against anything to improve track and field. Can you imagine if basketball, baseball and football shunned anything making players better, faster?. Track and fields fans would rather everyone run on cinder tracks I guess smh

I probably wouldn’t buy a pair of $250 shoes for my 11-year-old runner, but who cares. I bet there are people nay saying dropping $250 in racing flats that are raising their kids in like 3,000 sq foot houses and getting them iPhones and stuff so what’s the difference? All stuff kids don’t actually need. If you’re swimming in cash and your kid is stoked to look cool and take half a second off their 1600, so what?

Yep! I agree.

Be careful though, there's a crazy group of "Kara's Karens" out there who will cancel you if you speak ill of their life idol.

Also, I believe lower leg strength would be developed via wearing trainers during non-racing runs, not during races. You maybe spend a 1/2 percent of running in racing shoes.

Here's a crazy idea, how about incorporating some basic low intensity lower leg strength exercises to help. Or maybe, let your kid participate in other sports (soccer, baseball, lacrosse) to develop lower leg strength before "Forcing" him to run so you can brag about how good he is. Ooops...I've said too much, here come the Karens!!!

Happy Friday!

I've seen this a lot at parkrun.

Pre-pandemic running wasn't as popular and people just turned up in whatever, it was more casual and laid back.

Nowadays with strava etc it's become very competitive.

The kids have iPhones so vaporflies aren't surprising.

I bought my 12 year old Vaporflies and Dragonflies. He is setting National records and winning National championships, asks for them as gifts at Xmas and bday time so it’s not a random expensive purchase, and it pales in comparison to how much I spend on his older sister for ballet. Pointe shoes cost over a hundred bucks and last like 30 seconds. I figure if the kid is into it and it’s supportive of an active activity it’s much better than buying phones or a video game system and games. 🤷‍♂️

Kara just tweeted that Adam Goucher is the hero of her life and her book. Really? I had no idea that it was going to be about Adam.