VALBY RUNS IN VAPORFLYS WITH SPIKES, Wins in CR 31:46.09

Yes it's legal for the NCAA.

Here is some race video. I changed the title to add in the fact that she won and her time.

Is this an unreleased model? or rather a DIY project?

Doesn't count.

Either DIY or someone at Nike made them for her. Did she also wear these in XC or just the regular vaporfly 3?

ITS THE SHOOOEES

The future of NCAA track is athletes rigging up Frankenstein shoes with whatever mishmash super shoe parts they have.

Watch out for the 20 spike, 50mm stack height, super shoe that also has the Alphafly weird air bag thing on the front.

SUPER SHOES MAY NOT BE USED TO QUALIFY FOR THE OT OR OG.

They are legal for all NCAA competition but those times do not count for qualifying for the trials.

She lapped All-Americans. I dunnoo.... If you get lapped should you even be an All-American?

I'm an American.... I don't want a person getting lapped to be labeled All-American. hate this

CR but doesn't count as a PR right?

Valby would be lapped by the best women in the world. Should you even consider yourself a champion at that point?

Why do we have the metal spikes anyway? Unless it's wet they serve absolutely no purpose...

If they are plateless I doubt she (her team) made them herself, because trying to extract that plate without ruining the shoe is probably next to impossible.

I’m confused, why is this time special? It’s almost 3 minutes behind the WR, she’d get lapped twice. Is American women’s distance running just that bad where 3 minutes behind is considered amazing?

There is definitely a traction advantage on a dry track, but I guess you are smarter than all the shoe manufacturers that put spikes on shoes.🙄

I know that Gwen Jorgensen had a pair of these as well. They were made for her by someone at Nike in Beaverton and were never intended to be released as a production shoe. The guy who made them was/is super clever and they were hardly any heavier than the regular Vaporflys.

Personally, I would love to have a pair since I run a lot of my tempo runs on the track and the track is also wet (PNW = rainy Winters).

What makes your think they are "plateless"? If they were Vaporflys, they have carbon plates.

There were two points about the shoes made by SS, and you are overlooking one of them:

(1) Removed internal plate.

(2) Added spike plate.

A competent DIYer could add a spikeplate; not so wrt trying to remove the internal plate. The latter was done in the original manufacture of the shoe.

It was also about a minute slower than her PB. I think in a set up fast 10k valby could run well under 30:30 I would bet within the next 2 years she’s going to break 30 min.