SHOES Render The Sport a JOKE!

I had no idea that even relative nobodies can now run 13:0X. It is still a great achievement but color me unimpressed. It takes a sub 13 now to impress. Jokers are doing 13:0X now. These clown shoes are certainly doing their part. Will people look back in 2100 and say these 2022 shoes are primitive? Probably as the world record will likely be 11:30 by then.

Wow look at 37 year old Sam Chelanga running 27:54. Sammy should move to the marathon and show Galen who is boss. With the shoes everybody can be a winner. I guess we now know that Galen should return his Olympic marathon medal…

You should save up some money from your disability check and buy them one of these months. They're awesome.

It would be a funny joke to see a clown run sub 13. Rainbow wig matted down w sweat, make-up streaking down his clown face.. while his big clown nose honks away. Yes, I would laugh at that.

What’s wrong with faster times? At the end of the day it’s about beating your peers.

You get a sub 13, and you get a sub 13, and you get a sub 13 - everyone gets a sub 13!

You ran close to 13 minutes?

I suspect america has many more clowns than people who can run 13’.

Tech has changed all sport over the years, it's not a big deal. Did you think that shoes and tracks from 2012 were the same as 1972? 1952? Of course not.

You never could really compare generations and you still can't. I bet no one thinks Cheptegei's 12:35 is better than KB's 12:37 or Geb / Komon's 12:39, right? Bob Kennedy did sub 13 25 years ago. Would you say Kincaid is on same level? Not to pick on him specifically but I admit to being surprised by his 12:58.

So relax, everyone is on the same playing field right now and the fastest people are the fastest people.

Not for the vast majority of fans. Competition is the broad foundation, that’s what draws the most spectators. It’s a slim fraction of nerdy dorks who overrate records.

It is not that these runners are running fast because of shoes. It's because American distance runners have been running slow for so long. 13:0x was very fast time for the world 20 years ago. World class 5000 meter running in 2022 starts 12:59.

Cool! Stop timing events. Solved!

Lets Run trolls in 1968: Synthetic tracks are rendering the sport a JOKE!

Ha ha! Yeah, remember when they came out with synthetic tracks and Ryun and Clarke completely smashed their own records!? Yeah, me neither.

What are you on about?

6 people broke 13 in 2020

8 in 2018

3 in 2017

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Before supershoes?

7 in 2013

16 in 2012

12 in 2011

17 in 2010.

15 in 2009

The above of course might have been Lance Armstrong’s motto. I think they might have to change qualifying times for various events as the distance runners are now clowning around at close to 13 flat pace when many of them would have been 13:15 guys before the shoes took over the sport. I will tell you that pacer lights and clown shoes have rendered the sport an exhibition and no longer the revered sport it once was.

Ever heard of the pandemic? It was kind of a big deal.

Has anyone yet ran a sub 8 steeple in the super shoes? They should be really good for that, being bouncy and all. Give a pair to Jager and he might get there after all.

Of course the shoes play no role here. Thank you for letting us know that the shoes are simply a marketing gimmick and that the runners are wearing them for no reason.