I took the exact same pic for my first run in them on Wednesday and said the exact same thing on Strava hahaha. I ran MP and it felt like I wasn’t even trying
Is it cheating to do other things now that people didn't know about 50 years ago?
It seems like as long as the technology is safe and ubiquitous, then it isn't really cheating.
Is bi-carb cheating? Are safe & legal supplements cheating?
By definition, racing in AlphaFlies is not cheating...except in races where they're not allowed. That's just semantics, though. If EPO was legalized for all track events and road racing, taking EPO wouldn't be cheating either.
What's pertinent is whether or not it violates the ethical framework of the sport of running. Some would say it does. It may be fair in the "level playing field" sense that AlphaFlies are available to everybody (though not everyone has $300 to spend on a pair of shoes that work properly for 200 miles), but in a historical sense, it's not fair to runners of the past who didn't have access to modern shoe technology, i.e. Yiannis Kouros can't go back and run his 24-hour record in AlphaFlies.
The cheating started 61 years ago when Abebe Bikila broke the WR with a pair of Puma.
He should have stayed barefoot the keep the playing field level.
That doesn't make sense. "The field" already had shoes, so he had to put on shoes to level the playing field.
In this type of debate, people always think they can checkmate you by saying "ah, but there's been technological improvement in the past, so you can't possibly have any useful point to make. Plus, like, should we outlaw spaghetti dinners the night before a marathon because those carbs aid performance?"
Well for one thing, if all tech improvement is fine because that's just the way of the world, why is there a 40mm stack height limit for shoes? Because World Athletics recognized that tech improvements were getting out of hand and distorting the sport. So while the damage was already done to some degree, at least the World Athletics ruling implicitly confirmed the validity of the concept that too much technological improvement could be a bad thing. That's exactly what I'm saying too. I just think they didn't go far enough.
The cheating started 61 years ago when Abebe Bikila broke the WR with a pair of Puma.
He should have stayed barefoot the keep the playing field level.
That doesn't make sense. "The field" already had shoes, so he had to put on shoes to level the playing field.
In this type of debate, people always think they can checkmate you by saying "ah, but there's been technological improvement in the past, so you can't possibly have any useful point to make. Plus, like, should we outlaw spaghetti dinners the night before a marathon because those carbs aid performance?"
Well for one thing, if all tech improvement is fine because that's just the way of the world, why is there a 40mm stack height limit for shoes? Because World Athletics recognized that tech improvements were getting out of hand and distorting the sport. So while the damage was already done to some degree, at least the World Athletics ruling implicitly confirmed the validity of the concept that too much technological improvement could be a bad thing. That's exactly what I'm saying too. I just think they didn't go far enough.
^This x1000! But, you’re gonna get a lot of downvotes from all the cheatshoe fanboys that don’t want to admit their 15:58 5k is really a 16:20.