This is a Brooks problem that they are not willing to fix. It is funny that Des Linden waits until she retires to make a statement and even then you need a decoder ring to figure out her tweet. The Beasts all wore Nike shoes 2 years ago. Nothing from Des then.
Chari Hawkins who is a Brooks athlete does all of her training videos, that have a huge following, in her USA Nike Kit. Another slap in the face to Brooks.
Several Brooks NIL athletes wear their team sponsored gear and shoes for non NCAA Meets. It’s honestly embarrassing.
Brooks will probably let it slide when she can still wear full branded kit. I think they'll make her wear Brooks shoes at Worlds, where she can't wear any other Brooks kit. This is what On did with Chris Thompson at the Tokyo Olympics. He qualified wearing blacked out Vaporflys, then had to wear On's shoes at the games itself.
But if you wonder why Brooks gave Kerr such a long, valuable, contract, it's because he reps the brand harder than anyone except Des.
Brooks will probably let it slide when she can still wear full branded kit. I think they'll make her wear Brooks shoes at Worlds, where she can't wear any other Brooks kit. This is what On did with Chris Thompson at the Tokyo Olympics. He qualified wearing blacked out Vaporflys, then had to wear On's shoes at the games itself.
But if you wonder why Brooks gave Kerr such a long, valuable, contract, it's because he reps the brand harder than anyone except Des.
Wow. Just wow. You think that cool Des can tweet something pointing out that Infeld is wearing another brand and still be interested in what is best for Brooks? Some have pointed out that this was a great advertisement for Nike and Des brought it to the spotlight.
Brooks will probably let it slide when she can still wear full branded kit. I think they'll make her wear Brooks shoes at Worlds, where she can't wear any other Brooks kit. This is what On did with Chris Thompson at the Tokyo Olympics. He qualified wearing blacked out Vaporflys, then had to wear On's shoes at the games itself.
But if you wonder why Brooks gave Kerr such a long, valuable, contract, it's because he reps the brand harder than anyone except Des.
Wow. Just wow. You think that cool Des can tweet something pointing out that Infeld is wearing another brand and still be interested in what is best for Brooks? Some have pointed out that this was a great advertisement for Nike and Des brought it to the spotlight.
So did it take a decoder ring to figure out her tweet or did it bring it to the spotlight? First you're upset that she never said anything and now you're mad that she did say something. You seem to know what's best for the brand, enlighten us, please.
Brooks will probably let it slide when she can still wear full branded kit. I think they'll make her wear Brooks shoes at Worlds, where she can't wear any other Brooks kit. This is what On did with Chris Thompson at the Tokyo Olympics. He qualified wearing blacked out Vaporflys, then had to wear On's shoes at the games itself.
But if you wonder why Brooks gave Kerr such a long, valuable, contract, it's because he reps the brand harder than anyone except Des.
Fair enough. Nike got Infeld to worlds, now she can get lapped in Brooks.
BTW, not a knock on Infeld. Just that you expect the winner to go sub-29 and none of the Americans are near that.
I wonder how she raced so well. She was dropping out of races last year and we all thought she was done. Does training at elevation help that much?
She was already doing stints in Boulder with Team Boss. I don’t think altitude is the main factor. She said with Team Boss it was a different type of program than she is used to and it didn’t necessarily work for her. She said she thrives more on the longer training and threshold training and it sounds like she wasn’t doing that quite as much on Boss. But she also had a few injuries so she attributes this step in the right direction at being healthy and building back slowly. She’s also been doing a lot of double threshold, sometimes twice per week.
I wonder how she raced so well. She was dropping out of races last year and we all thought she was done. Does training at elevation help that much?
She was already doing stints in Boulder with Team Boss. I don’t think altitude is the main factor. She said with Team Boss it was a different type of program than she is used to and it didn’t necessarily work for her. She said she thrives more on the longer training and threshold training and it sounds like she wasn’t doing that quite as much on Boss. But she also had a few injuries so she attributes this step in the right direction at being healthy and building back slowly. She’s also been doing a lot of double threshold, sometimes twice per week.
I’m shocked - SHOCKED - that Joe Boss didn’t work for her.
This is not something new. It has been going on for decades. Case in point, when Gianni Poli won the 1986 NYC Marathon he was sponsored by Ellesse. If you look closely at Poli's shoes you can see the Ellesse logo on his shoes, but the shoes were clearly Nike American Eagles. The Swoosh was removed and somehow the Ellesse name was stitched to the upper of the shoe. Brooks wants to be thought of being on the cutting edge of running, why couldn't they just have just made a custom pair of spikes for her if she didn't like the ones they already have?
Des comes off as a bit ‘mean girl’ from that tweet…
Des has alsways had a tendency to do that. Not sure why she is so liked and adored by her fellow runners and fans. I don't hate her but clearly not a big fan like for some others that seems like genuinely nice people.
Also for the spikes I think 99.8% of casual fans that follow will never know. They just see her tops with the logo and brooks post about it. We are the couple of super interested fans that dig deep into that stuff. For Brooks its just not what is relevant the spikes people wear in championships and for the average Joe runner it does not matter either.
I am very confused why a Brooks athlete would be allowed to be wearing Nikes right now. Sure, in 2021 it was allowed when other brands didn’t have super shoes but Brooks clearly has super shoes now. Did anyone ask for an explanation on this?
I am very confused why a Brooks athlete would be allowed to be wearing Nikes right now. Sure, in 2021 it was allowed when other brands didn’t have super shoes but Brooks clearly has super shoes now. Did anyone ask for an explanation on this?
Maybe she runs faster in the Nike spikes. I mean if their purpose is to advertise their brand, then 99.9% of people watching Emily Infeld win think that she wore Brooks. And they put her picture up as the US 10000 champion wearing her Brooks trainers.
The 0.1% that could figure out they weren't Brooks know that there is zero correlation between what spikes an elite athlete wears and what daily trainers might work best for someone.