Move over super shoes - Feldspar claims it anticipates its track "will be 20 per cent faster than the Paris Olympic track"

That's pretty high tech, but I still don't think its as futuristic as the spray on shoes from oncloud

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I can see it now. “Crazy to have eight guys in the NCAA breaking 3:20 in March.”

Track turning into a joke like Olympic swimming.... records being broken with new body suit technology, water flo patterns in the pools etc. etc.

The only thing crazy about it is the crazy people who will believe it

"Step away from the beer and keep your hands where we can see them."

20% greater energy return does not mean the track is 20% faster.

So does it favor the best runner, or the runner who is best at running on a trampoline?

Just like the super shoes, some runners form will benefit more than others.

watching some races on the treadmill and I found myself wondering if we could quantify which aspects of form work better with the carbon shoes than other. I was looking at the variety of forms in Fukuoka ‘83, Salazar, Irangate, Sékou, the Soh brothers, and wondering: who would be 4% faster, and who, like Molly Huddle, would absolutely not be faster.

although the degree of rotation that Mantz has scares the hell out of me long term for him meniscus, I think his light frame and quick turnover is really, really well suited for the alpha fly’s. I believe he really benefits from that shoe with his biomechanics. I think Seko with his quick turnover would have done well also. Salazar, with a lumbering stride, I don’t think would have nearly as much.

Regardless of whether the new track tech allows for faster running, this is a good time for WA to draw a line in the sand. Standardized track surfaces. No more mechanical assistance.

or, will it favor the runner who's track spikes midsole foam is most capable with the bounce of the track? there is such a thing where too much bounce is detrimental.

They are talking about sub-9, so 8.99 would satisfy their prediction. Still a bold claim that we should be skeptical about, but if they had said 8.00 was possible, that would be much less believable.

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as we say in English, this is la totalle BS

I’m beginning to think it’s time to cancel all the records and start racing barefoot on a grass track and see who’s best

Hell damn no! Big fat NO! We don’t want the 1500m world record broken even in Honeywell’s aeronautical engines fitted on human legs ROJO!

We want to preserve history, a statue for the ages, a legacy for eternity. We want to make a God out of Hicham El Guerrouj si!

Hey granddaddy, step away from your sinful lusts of the eyes and keep morally pure like a gem. The irradiated kids will be too irradiated in a few years time to take advantage of any feldspar track.

That’s just scratching it. Imagine the shame running still 3:34s and 3:35s after these tracks are widespread? That’s the real apocalypse.

I for one a moral king do not welcome immoral improvement of sport. If I were Coe I want to close down the sport of athletics, seal it a million times around with duct tape and never open its Pandora box ever again. And my king El G gets to remain king forever too. This is the positive outcome I hope to have as president of athletics.

It will favor whichever runner can convert bounce into forward momentum best. At the elite level, it would definitely pay to train one's stride for optimizing racing on a track like this.

This is all getting out of hand. The recent cheater shoes has destroyed the 4 min mile mark for HS runners. Look at how many American HS runners ran under 4 min after Ryun. And then after the recent cheater shoes. Was it 9 HS runners from 1967 to 2020? then how many since? 18 or 19 in 5 years. ?

It's cheating. It is getting assistance to go faster than you would without those trampolines in your shoes.

I'd love to see or participate in barefoot races or on the old dirt tracks with the traditional spikes and runners have to dig their own holes for starting. I can hear Chariots of Fire in my head while I write this.