Kara Goucher (eyeroll)

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While I agree on the lack of evidence, what 12 year old needs super shoes anyways? Middle school cross country shouldn’t be so cutthroat as to where a kid needs $250 super shoes. At that age, keep them in trainers and let them focus on having fun.

I think she knows what she's talking about. She said something about achilles strength. People are always giving kudos to Kenyans for having an active childhood with no shoes or threadbare shoes that give them foot/ankle strength. She has a point. They change the way people run.

Consider the possibility that Adam and Kara Goucher actually do know something about run training . . .

Who da fkc would buy their 12 year old $250 shoes?

She’s probably right.

It cracks me up how much she triggers some of you snowflakes 😂🤣

But wasn't her career best results due to the coaching of Salazar and his knowledge of run training and not her's?

I've seen parents backstab and take advantage of the good will of others so if they thought $250 shoes would help their kid win at 12 years old, there is no doubt in my mind they would steal the shoes if they could get away with it.

Give me a break on the non-bolded part. As if Kara wouldn't have worn Nike prototypes at the 2016 trials if had still been with Nike.

Definitely about running training.

What do they know about whether or not a shoe "prevents kids from developing proper lower body strength"? She has a degree in psychology. Is she running tests at a lab or something? It's just silly. We get it, she doesn't like supershoes. She is upset about 2016.

I like her and her commentary, generally. Not allowing your teen to run in good shoes because you have an unsupported hunch is worth an eyeroll.

This is the sort of "Born to Run" type anecdotal evidence that never made any sense and that scientific studies have routinely shot down. Everyone was saying you should run in minimalist shoes until, slowly, the studies (and lawsuits) showed how much more likely you were to get injured. Now people run in maximalist shoes. One of the main benefits is that you don't get injured as much and your legs are more fresh. If you want to strengthen your achilles, you do calf raises and heel drops, you don't run in bad, 2000s-era style trainers.

Des Linden agreed with Kara. What's her degree?

This is the right reason. It's why so many youth swim leagues outside of the non-competitive circuit have banded the $300 slippery suits. It should be fun and results not based on whose parents have the most disposable income (coupled with a weird desire to give their kids every advantage without earning it).

What’s her stance on giving kids unnecessary thyroid medication prescribed by shady Docs?

I'm sure she is bitter that she wasn't wearing super shoes in 2016 and she definitely would have if she could. Most normal people would be bitter or, at the very least, upset or resentful. That's normal. You would be as well.

It sounds like she also lives in your head. Too funny how she bothers some of you so much.

I would say more DESPITE Salazar...

"a weird desire to give their kids every advantage without earning it" literally makes no sense when you're talking about athletic equipment for the sport. How does a kid "earn" the right to better equipment? Just by being faster? E.g. "only the top 5% should be able to wear super shoes" or something else?

No need to pay more than $150 nowadays.

And the OP is right, there's no scientific reason not to race in Vaporflys. There is good reason to train in a variety of shoes including ones with a more flexible sole.