The benefits of running in carbon-plated running shoes – often referred to as super shoes – on race day, are well documented. Professional and elite runners say carbon shoes have helped them break ...

Here’s how we conducted our Outside Lab Marathon: Human vs. Machine.

Once seen only on the feet of elite runners at the Olympics and other premier running events, the so-called "super shoe" has moved from racing podiums to pavements.

It is the lightest and most expensive marathon running shoe in history and, at its launch in the shadow of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square on Thursday night, there was a collective certainty about ...

If a running shoe made you 25 percent faster, would it be fair to wear it in a race? What about 10 percent? Or 2 percent? The Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4% — a bouncy, expensive shoe released to the public ...

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