I've had new balance shorts for years. No problems. I've always felt that the shoes don't last as long as others but 100 miles? no.
The initial observation lacks basic credibility.
The current 1080 is an excellent everyday training shoe.. (very) durable, supportive collar for the ankle, flexible and breathable upper, with a midsole that allows a reasonable soft footstrike without being a pillow. The Fuel Cell super comp trainer (graphite insert)? Same.
I've run a lot of miles in a lot of new balance shoes over decades. They're good and have improved.
my two cents
I've been running in the 1080 for the last 6 years or so and easily put 1200km (750 miles) on a pair. Just got the v13, and they've changed the upper which now pinches my toes - so not sure about it yet.
Their shorts lasts years (thousands of kilometers) before chafing through.
It's said to be easier than the MCAT, but harder than the Florida Bar Exam. You have to answer questions about suitable attire, standards of behavior, and doping rules, and you can't miss more than 12 multiple choice questions out of 48.
"Valby sent Coogan a sample of her recent training. He agreed that she doesn’t run a lot of miles, but she runs more than people might think."
I've been saying this forever. Post XC NCAA's, Valby said she does some 30 plus mile weeks. Every time I've brought this up, people downvote it like crazy as if they refuse to believe she actually runs. Glad Coogan mentioned this.
Wait, Valby only runs 30 miles per week?! And sometimes less? I've only loosely followed her, but whenever Valby's name comes up and people talk about her cross-training a lot, I assumed that meant 50-60 miles per week, maybe down to 40 when the injury bugs start biting.
That's crazy if true that a US 10k Olympian can get by with so few miles. No wonder everyone talks about it.
Haha, good point. I think you're right in terms of the trend but there are a lot of people still in the closet, in my life, in your life, especially male athletes! It was a big deal when he came out a few years ago because there aren't many other gay/bi/queer elite distance men in the US, which is important for all young athletes to have role models at the top of the sport to identify with. So I specified that he was openly gay for that reason and to emphasize that the previous post was pretty uninformed.
Good fit for her, good training group, and a good Coach. They will spend periods in Flagstaff which is great. Hopefully they don't have to spend too much time in Boston during the worst of the Winter, although they most likely have access to indoor facilities.
It's said to be easier than the MCAT, but harder than the Florida Bar Exam. You have to answer questions about suitable attire, standards of behavior, and doping rules, and you can't miss more than 12 multiple choice questions out of 48.
Good fit for her, good training group, and a good Coach. They will spend periods in Flagstaff which is great. Hopefully they don't have to spend too much time in Boston during the worst of the Winter, although they most likely have access to indoor facilities.
they have access to a virtually brand new state of the art facility.
Designed to be the fastest track in the world. State-of-the-art complex with 200-meter hydraulically banked indoor track and seating for up to 5,000 spectators.
It's said to be easier than the MCAT, but harder than the Florida Bar Exam. You have to answer questions about suitable attire, standards of behavior, and doping rules, and you can't miss more than 12 multiple choice questions out of 48.
Wow! You have to do better than 75%!
Some professional certifications are tougher than you think. The USPTO Patent Bar Exam requires 70/100 correct responses to multiple choice questions. The passing rate is routinely under 50%.
No, seriously. I knew that Valby is "low-mileage", injury-prone, spends a lot of time on the arc trainer, etc. But few of the forum posts actually go into the specifics, so I never realized exactly how low-mileage this was. I do agree it's kind of funny that the first time I saw the actual numbers was in a post arguing the other direction, that 30 mpw is not that few.
I'm still in a mild disbelief: is 30 mpw actually right? If we took Valby's weekly mileage over the best parts of her 2024 season, during full-time training and racing, it would actually average less than 35, and perhaps less than 30?
[For the record, I did know that ESP grew up on a diary farm and that Allyson Felix is a mom, but couldn't tell you anything about the dairy farm (small family farm or big conglomerate? her entire childhood or just a few years?) or Felix's family except that she has (at least?) one child. I could say a reasonable amount about each of their track careers. What can I say? Some things you actually know about and others you learn via random osmosis from a message board.]
Still think she should have used that last year of NCAA eligibility now that the financial landscape has changed so much. She would have been an even bigger star this year at UF with far more potential to grow her social media presence and popularity.
LRC represents a tiny hard core slice of the running world. My kids and their HS XC teammates went bananas over her when she was at UF. College sports have so much visibility now w/ begrudging credit to TikTok. In the obscure world of pro running, she will disappear from the radar of the average runner - i.e., the ones who buy most of those NB sneakers.
I wonder how thoroughly pros vet a supershoe before signing with a new brand. It's more important than ever, given the different responsiveness people have to different brands. Obviously the training shoes must work okay, but for racing it's all about the supershoe. Parker has done well with Vaporflys and it's not like she has been able to race publicly in New Balance. Presumably one would do time trial style reps with each shoe and make sure they really work okay, but I wonder how many just do a quick hard run and are like "yeah, seems fine" and then find out later they are losing seconds per mile when racing.
She will replace Emma Coburn as the face of New Balance running.
That was my thought as well. You have to think that 25' is her last year on the track at least. I know she's been messing around with some road 5k's the last few weeks (with not super-impressive times for someone of her caliber), but I don't see her personally doing well at transitioning to the 1/2 or full marathons at age 33/34 now.
On that note, I'm also surprised we haven't seen an announcement from Jager yet. I figured after his 4th at the trials and no further races this year we would have seen something.
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