Will Allyson Felix be able to wear her custom spikes with the new shoe regulations?

matt_london_413 wrote:

dangstraight wrote:

What about Michael Johnson’s hold dhoes I’m the 96 Olympics? Should we take away his records?

Yeah I think we should now investigate all shoes. Sounds like a really good idea actually.

Does anyone know if you can buy these anywhere and are they still illegal spikes?

It was at the time when tartan tracks came up. To be precise: It was in 1968. The all-weather synthetic track surfacing had a huge advantage. It let athletes compete in bad weather without worsening their performances. The only bad thing was that regular running shoes with the usual four or six nail-shaped spikes made for cinder tracks got stuck in the surface. PUMA did not wait for long and invented the Brush Spikes – shoes that came with 68 needle-like spikes in the front of the sole that provided an excellent grip on tartan tracks.

Baby Mama Drama wrote:

Who cares, Allyson Felix is done!

"Allyson Felix is done" - Do you need to say it like that?

Even if you feel this is true, couldn't you have expressed it more respectfully, such as Allyson is coming to end of her career for example. (I think she has earned that!) With that said, based on how she looked towards the end of last season, splitting 49 and 50 point; I think if gets no better than that, she is in the relay pool.

Reality is... wrote:

Baby Mama Drama wrote:

Bur she really is.

She has no shot at making it to Tokyo other than in the relay pool, where they will not throw her a bone again like they did for Worlds just so she could get a medal.

She's Washed up.

If you're using her 2018/2019 seasons as any indication of her being washed up, you're being disingenuous. She can very much make the Olympic team in an individual event. Prepare to eat crow.

Although I would love to see Felix make it in an individual event, which is possible, but it's going to be difficult. Linda Irby, Sharrika Barnett, Wadeline Jonathas and Kendall Ellis are young and only going to get better. And, consider the fact that Sydney McLaughlin has beaten all of these athlete and ran 50.07 at age 18; she is definitely in the relay pool and has a good chance of being automatically placed in the squad for the finals. Allyson will also have to contend with the fact that the NCAA produces a low 50 400m sprinter each year and then there is Francis, Okolo and Wimbley. She started looking good towards the end of last year, which may be enough to get her into the relay pool just what they did at the world championship, but not in 4x4 finals.

Felix barely ran faster than the winner of the HS girls race at Milrose. She looked TERRIBLE!

I take it back, she's not done, she's overdone!

Baby Mama Drama wrote:

Felix barely ran faster than the winner of the HS girls race at Milrose. She looked TERRIBLE!

I take it back, she's not done, she's overdone!

The 60 is not her event. Felix is a 200/400 runner.

Bad Wigins wrote:

you can't sprint faster by bouncing. You need fast cadence and that means less bouncing.

you lose speed by adding any form of vertical displacement to your footstrike. A sprint footstrike needs to be quick, and it needs to be on the ground solidly as soon as possible so the body can begin accelerating from the planted foot.

You can't "bounce forward" because the surface you're bouncing off is pointing up, not forward.

MillroseWatcherz wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

you can't sprint faster by bouncing. You need fast cadence and that means less bouncing.

you lose speed by adding any form of vertical displacement to your footstrike. A sprint footstrike needs to be quick, and it needs to be on the ground solidly as soon as possible so the body can begin accelerating from the planted foot.

You can't "bounce forward" because the surface you're bouncing off is pointing up, not forward.

This is partly true for the acceleration phase. The new shoes will help past 60m.

Baby Mama Drama wrote:

Who cares, Allyson Felix is done!

She could be. It's tough to find a sprinter that can push through the age barriers and hit the gym to gain strength as they get older instead of relying on natural fast twitch muscle fibers and tendons given to them when they were born.

We will see just what Felix is made of as she gets older. If she retires early and gives up then i'll use that to gauge just how much determination and will power she has and how much of it is just natural speed.

So we will see what she does this year. She's not old. Only 34.