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Educator, thinker, writer, runner, and coach. Footwear Industry observer, reporter, and sometime influencer.

California
Joined July 2011
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Hoka One One, New Balance, Nike, and Skechers all have shoes with curved plates. Kipchoge's shoe is at least the fourth iteration carbon plate shoe from Nike (neat trick repurposing Zoom Air into a new patent). @bartoldbiomecha @mariofraioli @RunBlogRun @OTownPodiatry
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We have seen plates in racing shoes for years, including carbon fiber, in a vast array of track spikes over a half century. Why? To maximize performance. The missing element in major marathons is that they don't roll out a rubber track over the marathon course.
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Kipchoge's effort was absolutely electric...
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