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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...