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* 1:30 meet Dustin Joubert
* 3:00 Dustin’s first experience with modern ‘supershoes’
* 5:30 all the published research is on the Nike Vaporfly line
* 6:30 what is a ‘supershoe’?
* Carbon plates increase rigidity
* More / thicker cushioning
* New, higher compliance materials
* 8:15 defining the primary metric used to compare shoes: running economy
* 11:45 the Study
* 19:45 the results
* Top-tier tested shoes: Nike Alphafly, Vaporfly, Asics Metaspeed Sky
* Mid-tier shoes: Saucony Endorfphine Pro, NB RC Elite
* No-effect shoes: Hoka Rocket X, Brooks Hyperion Elite 2
* 22:00 is it possible to correlate midsole foam material to performance in this study?
* 25:00 which shoe should I buy?
* 28:45 field testing shoes
* 30:30 translating running economy improvements to race performance
* ~1:1 improvement in race times vs improvement in economy at slower speeds (~14kph)
* ~⅔ : 1 improvement in race times vs improvement in economy at faster speeds
* With the caveat that economy itself may not increase as much at slower speeds
* 36:00 what’s next in shoe tech?
Dustin's Supershoe paper preprint [https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1032&context=kinesiology].
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