$500 a pop for unsponsored athletes. Many could benefit but not all can afford. Would you help someone if they couldn't truly afford?
$500 a pop for unsponsored athletes. Many could benefit but not all can afford. Would you help someone if they couldn't truly afford?
Those shoes were only sold to the public so that they would be world athletics legal. They were never meant for the general public, only for sponsored athletes. You’re not gonna need them for your local fun run
running becoming a bit like triathlon now. but your expensive bike can last more than one race.
Unless you’re tight on money, it makes sense to wear the best available gear. If you spend 10h a week and 1000s of USD on training shoes, gym subscription and so on to train for a marathon, it’s a relatively low investment to spend a few hundred quid on a shoe if you think it’ll significantly help your performance.
broken zipper wrote:
$500 a pop for unsponsored athletes. Many could benefit but not all can afford. Would you help someone if they couldn't truly afford?
I think the trend is more towards Patreon. Athletes with a social media presence, usually youtube, ask for money this way for their expenses. Its possible a guy right on the cusp of some time could use gofundme for shoes though. Most people would just be content to run in old model vaporflies if its a question of money.
I know someone who made a Gofundme for Taylor swift tickets. Modern comforts have made people so entitled.
I finish in the top places at parkrun running in £40 reebok floatrides compared to others in £150 vaporflies or £200 alphaflies.
DietBacon wrote:
Unless you’re tight on money, it makes sense to wear the best available gear. If you spend 10h a week and 1000s of USD on training shoes, gym subscription and so on to train for a marathon, it’s a relatively low investment to spend a few hundred quid on a shoe if you think it’ll significantly help your performance.
+1
For what I spent to run Berlin this year (coming from ‘Murica) - $500, or barely $200 more than alphaflys, would have been a drop in the bucket.