Brooks Hyperion Elite Carbon Plate Racing Shoe

Brooks missing the “cushion” crucial point does not mean other brand missed it also.

New Balance future top shoe is apparently very soft.
Hoka I do not know, but they experienced high stack/high cushion before Nike.
Saucony use PEBA also, so probably not missed the point.

I understand Nike fan try to push their new baby, but at this stage, absolutely no evidence it is more efficient than the other “new generation” shoes coming from Saucony, NB, Hoka, … (apparently Brooks not there anymore)

The request for athletes was for a regulation. They have it now. And it look pretty good.
Late, yes.
Straight on he spec of the AlphaPlacebo, yes. But hey, money talk :slight_smile:

The “performance gap” opened in 2017 is most probably going to be closed in one month :slight_smile:

You either really hate nike, or are totally delusional
you keep making the point that the nike shoes were not “scientifically proven” to be faster and missing the forest for the trees. It does not matter if they are proven faster or not, what matters is that nike convinced the world that they are faster and people assume each new model is even faster than the one before it. That’s why they were able to charge a price unheard of for running shoes and still it was impossible to get these shoes for months.
So regardless of scientific proof (or lack thereof), nike is 3 years ahead of everyone else, because that is what people think.
And if you don’t believe me go to any ironman race. 3 years ago you did not see a single nike shoe, now it dominates. And not just 4%/next%, it trickled down to pegs/peg turbo/etc.