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1 week ago |
gearjunkie.com | Craig Randall
About a year removed from the 2024 Olympics, elite running will return to Paris on June 26 in the form of “Breaking 4,” Kenyan runner Faith Kipyegon’s attempt to set the world’s first women’s sub-4-minute mile. The attempt doesn’t come from nowhere. A February 2025 study in the Journal of Applied Physiology predicted a women’s sub-4 mile within the next decade. Still, to shave nearly 8 seconds off Kipyegon’s current world record of 4:07.64, that’s not evolution — that’s a leap.
Under Armour Outpaces Nike at Boston Marathon: The Shoes That Helped Sharon Lokedi Set Course Record
1 month ago |
gearjunkie.com | Craig Randall
The Boston Marathon isn’t a record-chasing course. It’s tactical, uneven, and often at the mercy of New England spring weather. Here, the win matters more than the clock. So, while no one expected Kelvin Kiptum’s 2:00:35 world record or Ruth Chepngetich’s 2:09:56 mark to fall, few would’ve guessed that a lesser-known brand in pro road racing — Under Armour — would help make history.
Under Armour Outpaces Nike at Boston Marathon: The Shoes That Helped Sharon Lokedi Set Course Record
1 month ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Craig Randall
The Boston Marathon isn’t a record-chasing course. It’s tactical, uneven, and often at the mercy of New England spring weather. Here, the win matters more than the clock. So, while no one expected Kelvin Kiptum’s 2:00:35 world record or Ruth Chepngetich’s 2:09:56 mark to fall, few would’ve guessed that a lesser-known brand in pro road racing — Under Armour — would help make history.
Super Shoe Newcomer Confronts Heavyweights With Performance and Style: Tracksmith Eliot Racer Review
Mar 18, 2025 |
gearjunkie.com | Craig Randall
Nike changed the landscape of performance running shoes when it debuted the Vapor Fly 4% in 2017. Almost a decade later, every major shoe company has a racing model designed to compete with what Nike led with: carbon-plated, nitrogen-injected foams to dramatically improve runners’ performances. But Nike is incredibly commercial, sometimes inventing, but almost always chasing whatever is trending. The newest Alphafly I saw at The Running Event looked like a wearable meme.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
gearjunkie.com | Craig Randall
The super shoe revolution in trail running is a few seasons old at this point. Where all roads lead to Nike’s Alphafly with a handful of worthy number twos, there’s still no one defining super shoe for the trails — the type where if you line up in anything less, you’re sacrificing first place. Because of its unfortunate pandemic timing, you might have overlooked the fact The North Face was the first to put a carbon plate in a trail running shoe with its original Flight Vectiv.
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