I somewhat agree. But the "floor" of a great non super shoes is coming up though. A nice non super shoe is 150 + pretty much at this point. You are talking at most a 50$ difference. With running already the cheapest sport, dont sweat it too much. You could be a cyclist.
Shoes are your biggest expense. Last years model super shoe can be had for price of normal shoe. Hockey skates are 1000$. Be thankful we complain about 200$ shoes every 6 mo or so.
The biggest travesty is the price. Running used be an even playing field for all. Now you can buy an advantage.
I somewhat agree. But the "floor" of a great non super shoes is coming up though. A nice non super shoe is 150 + pretty much at this point. You are talking at most a 50$ difference. With running already the cheapest sport, dont sweat it too much. You could be a cyclist.
Shoes are your biggest expense. Last years model super shoe can be had for price of normal shoe. Hockey skates are 1000$. Be thankful we complain about 200$ shoes every 6 mo or so.
You only put in 500 miles/year? That's less than 10 miles/week.
The biggest travesty is the price. Running used be an even playing field for all. Now you can buy an advantage.
Price is not the biggest travesty. The biggest travesty is that the essence of our sport is the most raw, unfettered, fundamental, elemental expression of humanity, and supershoes completely ruin that.
You are strapping a several hundred dollar piece of technology to your feet that takes ENORMOUS wear and tear off of your muscles and even GIVES BACK energy.
If you wear a piece of technology that sends you to times that are several percentage points faster than you'd ever be able to go under the power of your own feet, then you are no longer competing in the same sport. This is the equivalent of the XFL or WWE and i can't wait for this "steroid era" of running to pass, and these shoes to be mocked as the comical cheating tool which they are.
I’m talking about, racing shoes, various types of training shoes, tempo, long runs etc.
In order to get the full benefit, extra training, recovery. You’re talking about a shoe budget of $1,000 plus.
People that can afford it can buy an advantage.
It goes against the spirit of the sport
You should try cycling lol. Times it all by ten.
But just like in running… talent over tech. Shoes aren’t bumping runners into new talent brackets.
This is just patently false. Cheater shoes are bringing enormous PRs to people who would never touch that bracket otherwise. There's a whole universe that separates a guy who runs a 2:25 marathon with regular shoes and a guy who runs it with cheater shoes (he's probably a 2:40-2:45 guy).
I feel your pain. In 1975 I bought a pair of Nike Cortez leather running shoes. Paid $25 for them. The next year I bought the latest greatest Nike shoe, the Nike Waffle Trainer. They were right around $25. A lot of money back then. Minimum wage was around $1.75 and you could buy a brand new basic Honda Civic for $1,500 - $3000
Off topic but- my mother took me for my first pair of Onitsuka spikes. She paid $18 and said- I can't believe I'm paying $18 for a pair of shoes!
I paid $240 for my Endorphin Pro 3's and $140-150 regularly for running shoes.
Wow!
runn, please stop calling about what I'm wearing today. You wear what you want to wear and I'll wear what I want to wear. And NO you cannot borrow any of my clothes, I never seem to get them back from you without hassle.
That may have been an attempt at being funny. I think it failed.
But to the original topic- I have thought about the newest one marathon shoes that cost about $500.
A sponsored runner will get them for free. But the unsponsored 2:15-17 guy probably can't afford them so is at a disadvantage.
Then, the 4 hour hedge fund guy CAN afford them but they're basically useless to him.
Biggest travesty is the bloated, unrealistic times that would never happen without the shoes. Not enough that ped use is already rampant. Nope, we’ve got to throw one more BS product into the mix. Nothing like using ‘15 seconds off your 14:00 5k’ as a marketing ploy.