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Super shoes—models with curved carbon-fiber plates embedded in tall stacks of lightweight, hyper-responsive foams—are now ubiquitous in the road racing scene. And with their performance benefits well established, more and more recreational racers are giving them a try—not just in racing, but in training.
There’s just one problem: the shoes have only been around for a few years, and while there is no doubt that they can make people faster in racing, there is little information on how to use them properly in training.
Two-time Olympian turned podcaster and NBC commentator Kara Goucher says it’s a topic she’s discussed with many people she knows. “How often do we use them? How often do we not?” are common questions Goucher says she hears. “We need to be careful, but we also do need to use them in practice because we want to get [the] advantages—but we…
