Running’s supreme challenge, from Steve Ellison
"[Peter] Thompson has previously worked with running brand Hoka to develop carbon-fiber-plated shoes and delivered a workshop on the performance-enhancing effect of “super shoes” and “super spikes” – as they are now ubiquitously known – at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, last year.
The carbon plates, Thompson says, function as “spring-like devices” and give runners more energy return compared to traditional shoe models.
According to data he collated, between 30 and 38 athletes competing in NCAA Division I indoor track races ran sub-four-minute miles each year between 2015 and 2021; that figure has increased about three-fold over the past two years to 90 in 2022 and 97 in 2023, he says."
Larry Williams responds:
I've been running is these [carbon-fiber-plated shoes] for 2 year. not sure about bounce but much easier on your legs = better endurance.