The Nike Vaporfly sneakers have been helping elite athletes run faster and break Adidas NMD Femme records since 2017.This is how sports science journalist Alex Hutchinson found himself in Italy in May 2017 watching Nike Air Max 270 Donne Olympic runner Eliud Kipchoge attempt to become the first person to run 26.2 miles, the length of a marathon, in under two hours.“The time on the clock was faster by a huge chunk than anyone had Nike Air Max TN Mujer ever done before. And that was just baffling to see. It changed my perceptions — and I think a lot of other people’s perceptions — of Nike Air Max 90 Femme how fast a person can move his or her legs over that distance,” Hutchinson tells host Nike Air VaporMax Damen Arielle Duhaime-Ross on this episode of Reset.Kipchoge didn’t quite make it that time. But he did beat the Nike Dunk Sky High Mujer under-two-hour record on October 12, 2019, in Vienna. Both times, he was wearing Nike’s high-tech Vaporfly shoes.

In fact, Nike estimates that runners who wear their Vaporfly shoes are 4 percent more efficient. Adidas Superstar Femme Even the New York Times confirmed that amateur marathoners who use the shoes really do run a few percentage points Nike Internationalist Femme faster.“People wearing those shoes have absolutely dominated major marathon races around the world. The five Nike Air Max 270 Mujer fastest men’s marathons in history have all been run in the last 13 months, all by runners Nike Air Max 97 Femme wearing Vaporflys. Not just all-time greats who are running fast, the top runners are running faster than anyone ever has before,” Hutchinson explained.But if these shoes are helping athletes like Kipchoge push the Nike Air Force 1 Mujer limits of what we think is humanly possible, should athletic regulators be concerned that they’re also giving Nike Internationalist Femme runners an unfair advantage? And should the shoes be banned from the sport?

“If they’re improving performance because they’re lighter and because there’s really good foam, that strikes me as quite fair. Nike Air Max 270 Dames If they’re improving performance because of the carbon fiber plate, which is you increasing your rebound when you run on the Nike Air Max 97 Femme road, that’s more complicated,” Nick Thompson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, says later in the Nike Air Max 95 Donne episode.Thompson finished the 2019 Chicago Marathon in 2 hours, 34 minutes and estimates he’s run Adidas Superstar Mujer five marathons while wearing a pair of Vaporfly
sneakers.Hutchinson had a different idea:Listen to their entire discussion here.