Noticed both winners were wearing the new Nike Vaporfly 4%? as well as Jordan and Osako, Abdi etc. Seemed to be a pretty good success. Rupp looked like he may have been wearing a modified version? Not sure it was a stock streak 6 he had on
Noticed both winners were wearing the new Nike Vaporfly 4%? as well as Jordan and Osako, Abdi etc. Seemed to be a pretty good success. Rupp looked like he may have been wearing a modified version? Not sure it was a stock streak 6 he had on
It looked like Rupp was wearing them. The upper was probably just different.
GaryOak wrote:
It looked like Rupp was wearing them. The upper was probably just different.
Yes, that was the consensus yesterday. Looks like a Streak upper but the "lower" (sole up) was the 4%.
The shoes look enormously clunky. Kind of odd.
Adidas may have been the official sponsor of the Boston Marathon on Monday, but it's the Nike VaporFly that actually won the race. The newest release in Nike's arsenal of technologically-advanced kicks was worn by 5 out of the top 6 male and female finishers, making their super human ability to run 26.2 miles in a freakishly short amount of time (on average, about 2 hours and 15 minutes) a key to their success but arguably not the only thing. After all, Nike's VaporFly was designed to make runners 4% faster and, hopefully, capable of completing a marathon in under 2 hours (something Nike will test on its own track later this year.) Runners on Monday opted for either the Nike VaporFly Elite or the Nike VaporFly 4% sneaker—a less aggressive VaporFly iteration—that's about to hit store shelves in a summer-appropriate all-white colorway.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these