Adidas shoes WR!!!!

Bluesky wrote:

So after today incredible fast Valencia 10k , are you still thinking that adidas shoes are slow and cannot make it against Nike next%?

Rhonex Kipruto 26'24" in 10k!!! Ok, so all of you that shout like a dog against Nike next% cos you think they give a huge advantage do you think that if Kipruto had wear Nike next% today in Valencia he could have run a sub 26' in 10 km ???

No way! You need good legs to run fast not Nike or Adidas or New Balance or Brooks or whatever brand you want

to name.

Adidas just did a better shoed than the Vaporfly.

The jury is out if the new adidas shoes is better than the Alphafly.

The shoes goes on and does not slow.

Abeneziel wrote:

Bluesky wrote:

So after today incredible fast Valencia 10k , are you still thinking that adidas shoes are slow and cannot make it against Nike next%?

Rhonex Kipruto 26'24" in 10k!!! Ok, so all of you that shout like a dog against Nike next% cos you think they give a huge advantage do you think that if Kipruto had wear Nike next% today in Valencia he could have run a sub 26' in 10 km ???

No way! You need good legs to run fast not Nike or Adidas or New Balance or Brooks or whatever brand you want

to name.

Adidas just did a better shoed than the Vaporfly.

The jury is out if the new adidas shoes is better than the Alphafly.

The shoes goes on and does not slow.

The Takumi Sen is a minimalist shoe which does exist since years, it isn't a new shoe with technology similar to the Vapor/Alphafly. However it's great that the Vaporfly finally got exposed, even the co-founders of this site fell for it. I mean, times like Letesenbet Gidey's insane run might be attributed to massive doping abuse or whatever, but Rhonex just proved that one definitely doesn't need a Vaporfly to run today's road times.

Yes , and is just a matter of coincidence, of course if all the fastest runners ( Kipchoge, Cheptegei, Brigid Kosgei, Kamworor, etc. etc) wear the Nike shoes , then they can break the WR cos they are the best runners not because they have Nike instead of Adidas.

Bluesky wrote:

Yes , and is just a matter of coincidence, of course if all the fastest runners ( Kipchoge, Cheptegei, Brigid Kosgei, Kamworor, etc. etc) wear the Nike shoes , then they can break the WR cos they are the best runners not because they have Nike instead of Adidas.

I wouldn't even say it is a matter of coincidence, it's just a fact that Nike invests much more in running than adidas right now. Nike apparently signed a lot of African marathoners which leads to leading groups full of their athletes wearing their shoes, while adidas apparently doesn't care that much about pro running currently. I mean, similar to Nike they also had some nobodies running fantastic times before today (like Stephen Kiprop 58:42 in RAK last year), but they have so much less athletes contracted that even running nerds like the brojos got fooled.

This is ridiculous, please explain why here in the UK almost double the number of people are suddenly running sub 2.30 marathoners year on year. Explain why the number of sub 65 halves and 2.20 marathons have gone up massively. This performance is the exception, not the rule. If it isn't the shoes why do we never ever see a single Nike athlete in another model? That is unprecedented.

Don't be silly, the shoe is designed to best aid half marathon and marathon strides, not 10K strides at that level.

lol at all those morons who bought a green or pink shoe wrote:

The Takumi Sen is a minimalist shoe which does exist since years, it isn't a new shoe with technology similar to the Vapor/Alphafly. However it's great that the Vaporfly finally got exposed, even the co-founders of this site fell for it. I mean, times like Letesenbet Gidey's insane run might be attributed to massive doping abuse or whatever, but Rhonex just proved that one definitely doesn't need a Vaporfly to run today's road times.

It's the new Adidas Pro shoes. It has been unveiled in November and we already see the results.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

Don't be silly, the shoe is designed to best aid half marathon and marathon strides, not 10K strides at that level.

You base this on?

Abeneziel wrote:

It's the new Adidas Pro shoes. It has been unveiled in November and we already see the results.

Definitely not that. It's the adidas Takumi Sen 5, which is the same shoe Joyciline Jepkosgei used to win the NYC Marathon back in Nov.

Wrong

3. Are Nike’s Vaporfly shoes the only enhanced shoes for runners in the market?

No. There are many brands that offer enhanced running shoes. New Balance, Hoka One One, Nike and soon Adidas have carbon-plated shoes that are enhanced with technology for better and faster running. As a matter of fact, debut runner Joyciline Jepkosgei, just won her first New York City Marathon wearing the Adidas Adizero Pro, a prototype that clearly promises some competition.

https://www.watchathletics.com/article/10987/4-things-to-know-about-nike-s-vaporfly-shoes/

Abeneziel wrote:

Wrong

3. Are Nike’s Vaporfly shoes the only enhanced shoes for runners in the market?

No. There are many brands that offer enhanced running shoes. New Balance, Hoka One One, Nike and soon Adidas have carbon-plated shoes that are enhanced with technology for better and faster running. As a matter of fact, debut runner Joyciline Jepkosgei, just won her first New York City Marathon wearing the Adidas Adizero Pro, a prototype that clearly promises some competition./

You are totally wrong, Jepkosgei wore the Takum Sen 5, it's long known. Keitany wore the new Adizero Pro in the same race and got beaten

Several websites clearly state that she used the Adidas Adizero Pro prototype.

Provide sources saying otherwise.

Wildhorse wrote:

https://images.app.goo.gl/qSZaXkyzBuMmKDzv9

Just because of the color?

Weak argument.

Abeneziel wrote:

Several websites clearly state that she used the Adidas Adizero Pro prototype.

Provide sources saying otherwise.

Look at basically every picture taken of her during the race, she isn't wearing the prototype Keitany or the 2nd man Albert Korir wore. Also there surely aren't several websites stating those fake news you continue to spread here.

Also you can always rely on rolows_13:

Abeneziel wrote:

Wildhorse wrote:

https://images.app.goo.gl/qSZaXkyzBuMmKDzv9

Just because of the color?

Weak argument.

You just need to zoom in and see for yourself: Takumi Sen 5 upper and midsole profile. I do remember the race and the outsole was the standard Takumi Sen too.

If you aren't convinced, well, that's on you. It isn't anybody else job to make you see what's obvious.

The shoes don't matter, when the Kenyan is juiced to the gills.

In the 5k and 10k the vaporfly or next % might be actually a disadvantage. You do know that these shoes were created focusing to break the 2 hour barrier and not the 25 minutes 10k right ?

Internetsherlock wrote:

In the 5k and 10k the vaporfly or next % might be actually a disadvantage. You do know that these shoes were created focusing to break the 2 hour barrier and not the 25 minutes 10k right ?

Yes but the studies say they are still better than track spikes down to 3k.