Former marathon star Rob de Castella calls Vaporflys "ludicrous – it definitely needs to be addressed."

Ok Boomer

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

Lol, my thoughts exactly. He’s upset that so many people are running faster times than his, in part, due to the shoes. Boing boing!

Sure, let's ban the Vaporfly.

How long will it be until the shoe companies look at the new rules, and make a new supershoe within those rules? Three months? Six months?

I'd say the shoe companies, especially Nike, are alreadly at work to have compliant supershoes ready by the Tokyo Olympics.

In other words, banning the Vaprofly, the Next%, etc, is a waste of time and energy.

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

I'd be pissed too if someone broke my long standing national record by 20 seconds in Vaporflys

And right after this he went outside and shook his fist at a cloud.

fkonfkoff wrote:

Precisely. Whiny old Khunt wishes he was relevant much like the OP!

I know Rob well, he'll be having a good laugh at that post.

Haha. wrote:

fkonfkoff wrote:

Precisely. Whiny old Khunt wishes he was relevant much like the OP!

I know Rob well, he'll be having a good laugh at that post.

Don’t take it too seriously, just joking around!

Big Red wrote:

Sure, let's ban the Vaporfly.

How long will it be until the shoe companies look at the new rules, and make a new supershoe within those rules? Three months? Six months?

I'd say the shoe companies, especially Nike, are alreadly at work to have compliant supershoes ready by the Tokyo Olympics.

In other words, banning the Vaprofly, the Next%, etc, is a waste of time and energy.

No, it's not. We wanted better shoes, we now have better shoes. Regulating shoes like every other piece of sports equipment is regulated is good for the sport, otherwise we'd have 10-foot trampoline-like drivers in golf - they don't want those, and we don't want these top guys bouncing to 1:51 marathons, either.

I welcome the next iteration of boing-boing shoe that doesn't have a stack height driven by mechanical advantage that dwarfs every maximal shoe we've ever seen. Especially if it's something anyone can buy, too.

Shoes *ARE* a mechanical advantage. Go barefoot or go home.

fkonfkoff wrote:

Haha. wrote:

I know Rob well, he'll be having a good laugh at that post.

Don’t take it too seriously, just joking around!

I pointed it out to him, he said tell the arsehole who posted it "less of the old".

Hardloper wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

I'd be pissed too if someone broke my long standing national record by 20 seconds in Vaporflys

Did you factor in the vaporflys into your 5k course record attempt? What if you wear them and they then invalidate your record? What if Jose has been training in pegs and he shows up to the race in vaporflys?

The way things are going the race will be over before it starts.

Big Red wrote:

Sure, let's ban the Vaporfly.

How long will it be until the shoe companies look at the new rules, and make a new supershoe within those rules? Three months? Six months?

I'd say the shoe companies, especially Nike, are alreadly at work to have compliant supershoes ready by the Tokyo Olympics.

In other words, banning the Vaprofly, the Next%, etc, is a waste of time and energy.

There haven't been new rules made at all. The rules have always stated that shoes are meant to provide stability and traction, not to provide a mechanical advantage. The IAAF is merely enforcing those.

Anyone notice that he set the record on the Boston Marathon course?

Kvothe wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

I'd be pissed too if someone broke my long standing national record by 20 seconds in Vaporflys

Did you factor in the vaporflys into your 5k course record attempt? What if you wear them and they then invalidate your record? What if Jose has been training in pegs and he shows up to the race in vaporflys?

The Vaporfly Next% will not be banned and the alphaFLY is not yet available for me to purchase so that shouldn't be an issue. If Jose has them, that's an interesting scenario but I plan to have a big enough gap that it won't matter.

Hardloper wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

I'd be pissed too if someone broke my long standing national record by 20 seconds in Vaporflys

But they’ve been around for a while and no one has broken his record

astrid wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

I'd be pissed too if someone broke my long standing national record by 20 seconds in Vaporflys

But they’ve been around for a while and no one has broken his record

They've not been around very long relative to his record (though I don't know if his time is officially their national record, I'm just speaking hypothetically). It's only a matter of time.

LoneStarXC wrote:

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

Translation:

I wish these were around when I was running, I would have been even faster!

Lol, my thoughts exactly. He’s upset that so many people are running faster times than his, in part, due to the shoes. Boing boing!

Lol. And in 20 years you two will throw a massive tantrum because someone is using a shoe with an ultra bouncy mechanism that propels the average runner to 2 hours flat, and top marathoners down to 45 minutes.