Sprintgeezer: There have been no tech advances in Footwear for Sprinting.. why sub-10 Easy?

No it's dope.

Simple.

The sprinting ped won't mention , if in various circles should find info on it easy.

The newer endurance ped is Mots-c...........

for records in Paris assuming alot of peds used beside it but this and sprinting ped are the step up in times .

There are things now that will clear the same day, even sooner, like an hour.

BUT there is a broader international talent pool this year in the NCAA, that might have something to do with it. Yeah I know a guy like Maswanganyi has been around the NCAA already, and hit a big PB…but I haven’t done a basic comparison yet. Remember the wind in the final was measured at +1.8, which makes a big difference.

Spikes might not make a huge difference, but that depends on sprint style. What makes a huge diff is the track surface, both that trained on, and that competed on. Idk what the Austin track is like, but some of these things are damn fast now. You feel it the second you step on. It makes a huge difference when you are putting sprint force down to the track.

Training? IMO no. Nutrition? IMO no. Legal supps? Yes, a little bit. Spikes? Not so much. Tracks? Yes. PED’s? Yes. Recruitment? Somewhat. Better treatment for recovery between hard sessions? IMO yes. NCAA sprint programs finally waking up to a more sensible meet schedule, focused on nats? IMO yes. Perfect conditions? Yes.

It’s a whole bunch of factors.

Maybe I will do some basic PB comparisons later! In the meantime, off to do an actual workout. Have to try to not be so inspired by recent events, I will probably tear something 😂

Other things have advanced. It's happened in other sports too. It's not as if record are not being broken in other sports.

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I don't know that I agree that there are no spike advances in sprinting. The Nike Maxfly is basically the legal, commercial version of the Viperfly, it's what Marcell Jacobs was wearing on his feet when he won Olympic gold in 2021. For all intents and purposes Jacobs was a 10.0 second 100m runner before that. Noah Lyles was wearing Adidas new super sprint spike when he ran 19.31 for the 200 last summer. Adidas, Nike and New Balance all have sprint spikes with carbon fiber plates and their super foam in them. They certainly don't have the dramatic effect that we've seen in the distance events, but I think it's reasonable to surmise that these new shoes are giving an advantage of .1-.2 seconds over 100-200 meters. The combination of bouncy super foams and a stiff carbon fiber plate is very well proven now for giving runners high energy return at foot strike. The only thing limiting this tech for sprinters is the fairly limited stack height allowed in sprint spikes, but I think we are still seeing a small advantage from the latest spikes.

Thank you for your thoughts here. Very interesting. Are you sure that better training principles don’t have anything to do with it? Has there not been any significant advances in training over the past 20 years or so? Maybe the last big advance was the “invention” or emphasis on the drive phase?

Sprint Geezer I've seen you post on this forum for many years. I'm genuinely curious what your experience was in T&F in your earlier years. What were your best times?

I was a sprinter as well. Ran at a top d3 program for my event but my career ended after only 1 collegiate meet with a grade 3 hamstring and partial tendon year. I always wonder what could've been.