Super Shoes NEED to be banned

Yep. I'm not saying we should go back to running barefoot, but at some point the pogo shoes make it no longer running. I think we've reached that point.

If not, what WOULD make you say that's too far? Little wheels on the bottoms of shoes? Gasoline powered jet packs?

Under Armour just launched their super shoe

Seeing that all my PRs were in the 1970-1980s without super shoes, I've adjusted my times. My marathon improved (4%) from 2:30 to 2:24.

Oh, I know. Remember when they came out with the plastic spike plate and everyone PRd 30 seconds in their 10k? Me neither. But what's not to like about all the fast times!? "Hi 14:20 guy - want to run sub 14:00?" "Sure, train more, eat better, epo?" "Pfttt, nope...shoes!" Keep the ridiculous times rolling folks. Can't wait for sub 26 10,000 - it will be hilarious.

I didn't down vote you, but if you want to stop this the thing to ban (limit) is the amount of energy return. Like they do in baseball bats and golf clubs.

I agree, Abebe Bikila is the true Marathon World Record Holder 2.15.16

No, it has a pebax plate which provides some of the stiffness, though it's not quite as good as carbon

Some of my best races from 2012-2014 were in these Adidas Adizero Rush with the plastic "Sprint Frame" plate between the foam and the upper. The foam was crap as it was hard and had like no bounce and no softness, but these shoes were efficient and fast well before today's shoes.

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Not only shoes, we should ban fiberglass poles and the Fosbury flop-the straddle was more aesthetically pleasing. And bring back a nicely rolled clay track.

I swear these posts are always made by someone who hasn't actually raced in the spikes

Now you're talking with some serious solutions.

I agree ban is needed. Best thing to do is boycott events where they work, support events where they don't... Hard trail races

Nah your generation was just slow..

Jokes on you, I actually have worn them. And they give runners an extreme advantage compared to normal spikes

Have you even ran in the dragonflies? I have. Yeah, they are little more cushioned and keep the calves from straining as much but they don't make you run faster, especially over the mile. Maybe 5k-10k because like I said, less strain on the calves. Spikes 10-15 years ago were just as fast and 15-25 years ago are not too far behind.

I would still prefer a pair of Original Victory Elites (which rocked a carbon fiber shank which nobody seemed to care about at the time.) for the 800-Mile.

Athletes are going to get faster. We continue to evolve. Compare times from the 1800s to the 1900s or 1900s to the 2000s and keep doing this. You'll get the drift. There are countless factors to why runners are running faster and is not just the shoes alone.

"They need to be banned for our sport" what a jokester.

How about we stop fetishizing the bad old shoes we had to use decades ago and just be glad we're finally getting shoes that don't suck. I used to have to race distance events in spikes on asphalt tracks and it sucked every time.

maybe at 50min 10k pace

The shoes need to be banned solely because they represent a barrier to entry for poor kids. Swimming banned the polyurethane suits. Running needs the courage to do the same.