This is what obsessively measured with Subject A and Subject B when they spent 2 weeks in the lab with me:
1. Flight Time - Which is the fraction of your stride spent airborne — both feet off the ground. It’s the moment between toe-off and the next ground contact.
And my goal was to develop a shoe that increased flight time.
Because if I did, then here’s what you’d get out of it:
• Longer flight without added effort extends stride length.
• Reduced braking forces on landing.
• Improved running economy (less wasted energy).
Yeah, you’d run faster for longer.
Then i was also obsessed with…
2. Weight
Ounces specifically. Because a few ounces added to every step over the course of 10,000 steps is a lot of unneeded weight. Just do the math.
Anyways, so I cracked it. We developed a shoe that’s 30 grams lighter. Yeah, 30 grams.
That’s big when we’re talking about daily training sessions. Hundreds of runs throughout the year.
Just think…
Less mass = less work per step.
Gold.
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