ShilohDoesntCare wrote:
It's not a placebo effect. The shoes really do help. Looking back at the last Olympics Jared Ward was racing in Type As, that was barbaric. We have no name athletes running 2:03. Are they better or more trained or more doped than Haile?
Who is running 2:03? Jared Ward, or some Ethiopians you had no reason to hear of until they ran 2:03? Because you don't notice a 2:08 Ethiopian.
Haile was a great, ground-breaking marathoner - from more than ten years ago. He paved the way for others to follow and improve on his performances in the flourishing road-racing scene. There's been no big dramatic jump, it's just natural progression.
Consider this - Haile ran 26 low in either flats or spikes. 10,000m is not so different from HM and marathon that someone shouldn't easily be able to run a sub 26 10,000 in these fly shoes, IF they work.
Consider this: 2019 saw boocoo records demolished on the track, such as women's mile, all in spikes no better than yesterday's spikes. Could it be (?) that the road racers had the same non-shoe improvement the track runners had? Not saying what it was, but be honest - records were massacred both in and out of the bouncy stuff.