For most of their existence, super shoes have been sort of fungible. Sure, some have been better than others. But within their primary elements—a thick slab of next-gen midsole foam, a carbon-fiber ...

One week before the 2018 New York City Marathon, Olympian Jared Ward received a package from Saucony, his shoe sponsor. Inside were three early prototypes of what eventually became Saucony’s first ...

Super shoes make almost everyone faster. The combination of the shoes’ next-gen midsole foam, carbon-fiber plate or other stiffening agent, and rockered geometry are known to improve running economy, ...

Grant O’Connor of West Hartford was 28 seconds short of qualifying for the Olympic Marathon Trials in 2024. At The Marathon Project Dec. 21 in Chandler, Arizona, he made sure he had plenty of extra ...

Love them or loathe them, carbon plate running shoes are here to stay – and with so many options from so many brands currently on the market, it’s difficult to cancel out the noise of the super shoe ...