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 ...

Nearly a decade ago, Nike’s Vaporfly 4% ushered in running’s “super shoe” era. With its big-rebound super foam midsole and carbon plate, boasting 4 percent efficiency gains, that shoe's revolutionary ...

Road-racing super shoes—boasting a thick stack of soft, hyper-responsive foam paired with an embedded, curved, rigid plate—have burst onto the running scene, delivering some of the most efficient ...

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Earlier this morning in Herzogenaurach, PUMA officially unveiled the much anticipated Fast-R NITRO Elite 3. It is the iconic brand's fastest-ever running shoe, engineered to aid your pursuit of a new ...

Any conversation about super shoes starts with Nike. It usually ends there, too. After all, the brand has dominated the top end of the running-shoe industry since it debuted the first Vaporfly in 2017 ...

While “marathon shoes” may conjure budget-breaking performance pairs claiming to help you get a PR, the truth is that the best marathon shoe is whatever works for you. That might be a carbon-plated ...