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Let’s try a thought experiment.
You purchase a pair of “super shoes” the high-stack, next-gen midsole, plated racing shoes that are
the running story of the last few years and soon boast a new personal best or two. You start to wear the shoes not just in races and special workouts, but also on more of your regular runs. You notice that you’re covering your standard loops faster without more effort. Plus, your legs don’t feel as beat up as they usually do. So you ask yourself, Why not run in super shoes every day?
Not so fast, say some experts, and not just because of the shoes’ relatively high price and lower durability. Doing so could increase your chances of some injuries and, paradoxically, leave you less able to race at your best.
Neal Steinhauer (Oregon) and
Dallas Long (USC). It is Geist’s fourth overall Pac-12 Championships title. He also won the discus in 2018.
MEN’S HIGH JUMP – Justice Summerset, Arizona (7-2½/2.20)
Tenth in 2017, third in 2018 and seventh in 2019, Summerset got his Conference title, clearing 7-2 ½ to become the Wildcats’ first winner since a four-year run from 2011-14. It was a four-man race between Summerset, Oregon’s
Ben Milligan, WASHINGTON STATE’s
Mitch Jacobsen and USC’s two-time defending champion
Earnie Sears. Summerset and Sears cleared 7-0 ¼ on their first attempts and Milligan and Jacobsen their second. Milligan and Jacobsen cleared 7-1 ½, Sears did not and Summerset passed before clearing the winning height.
The NCAA Data Is In: The Super Spike Effect Is Real, Starting In The 1500
May 10, 2021
A couple weeks ago, after four BYU women ran under 4:15 and four BYU men ran under 3:38 for 1500, I once again thought, It sure seems like people are running faster in 2021 than a normal NCAA year.
Of course, it makes sense if you are a believer in the super spike technology as I am as this is the first year that super spike technology has been widespread at the NCAA level.
Then it hit me. The NCAA descending order list will be the perfect way to see if super spikes are helping distance runners run faster.
The unstoppable rise of the super shoe - and how it caused mayhem in athletics
Experts reveal how much improvement these shoes provide as Telegraph Sport looks at which world records are now in danger of being broken
3 March 2021 • 7:30am
By the start of 2020, it was evident something was afoot. By World Athletics president Seb Coe’s admission, the governing body had “been chasing the horse around the paddock” in failing to react quickly enough to developments in road-running shoes and it was too late.
Nike’s technological innovations had changed the marathon landscape forever and no elite runner would ever take the start line again without some combination of carbon fibre and hyper-responsive foam under the soles of their feet. The horse had bolted.